Originally Posted by ljones

Hello all !

Has anyone managed to get mobilehotspot to work on the N900 all?

I've been trying to run mobilehotspot (both vesions 0.3.4 and 0.3.5 but not together - !) on my N900 without success. In both cases my PC can see "mobilehotspot" (I'm using a slackware linux 13.1 based OS on my PC which in turn is using wicd to manage the wireless connections) but is unable to connect to it.

From my N900 (what is installed for iptables, wireless tools etc);

Code:

$ dpkg -l iptables
iptables 1.4.6-5 

$ dpkg -l wireless-tools
wireless tools 30-pre7-1.3mae 

$ dpkg -l mobilehotspot
mobilehotspot 0.3.5

$ apt-cache show iptables
Package: iptables
Priority: important
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1160
Maintainer: Felipe Zimmerle <felipe.zimmerle@collabora.co.uk>
Architecture: armel
Version: 1.4.6-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5.0-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1)
Filename: pool/fremantle-1.3/free/i/iptables/iptables_1.4.6-5_armel.deb
Size: 350490
MD5sum: 727afd8dc81ae3f8e687f8846dfb7175
SHA1: dff172c3616cb496105f7a2a85d04cff0acfa9a2
SHA256: e247155e7edc79989b3a97d0fd90dd119244129a7ee0c5515457233ccfa51025
Description: administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
 These are the user-space administration tools for the Linux
 kernel's netfilter and iptables. netfilter and iptables provide
 a framework for stateful and stateless packet filtering, network
 and port address translation, and other IP packet manipulation.
 The framework is the successor to ipchains.
 .
 netfilter and iptables are used in applications such as Internet
 connection sharing, firewalls, IP accounting, transparent proxying,
 advanced routing and traffic control.

Package: iptables
Priority: important
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1320
Maintainer: Felipe Zimmerle <felipe.zimmerle@collabora.co.uk>
Architecture: armel
Version: 1.4.6-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5.0-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1)
Filename: pool/fremantle/free/i/iptables/iptables_1.4.6-4_armel.deb
Size: 341020
MD5sum: 8f1aa723eec7d09bb17c409beeb3de1b
SHA1: 16fa65d960eaecb5563a896d3994a3c334264cae
SHA256: ba8ac2383a9285b84f0c048e4e77e0e9ada1f95f6d2bdc0851b6cc745f0d8437
Description: administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
 These are the user-space administration tools for the Linux
 kernel's netfilter and iptables. netfilter and iptables provide
 a framework for stateful and stateless packet filtering, network
 and port address translation, and other IP packet manipulation.
 The framework is the successor to ipchains.
 .
 netfilter and iptables are used in applications such as Internet
 connection sharing, firewalls, IP accounting, transparent proxying,
 advanced routing and traffic control.

$ uname -r 
2.6.28.10power46

Can't see anything odd there except iptables which appears weirdly to have two versions -- 1.4.6-4 and 1.4.6-5 . Maybe they are conflicting?

I tried to remove the older version by doing this:

Code:

$ apt-get remove iptables-1.4.6-4

but got

Code:

E: Couldn't find package iptables-1.4.6-4

And the same result for

Code:

$ apt-get remove iptables_1.4.6-4_armel

x.x


ljones