I have an N800 I'm trying to connect to a mac mini with external usb wifi adapter. Because the wifi adapter is not an "airport" and from a different manufacturer (Hawking HWUG1A) the built-in Apple "airport options" aren't available when sharing the internet connection.

Hawking provides a driver and utility that lets one configure the adapter. I put it in ad-hoc mode to allow incoming connections. The device is 'en2' on the mac mini, and the mini's built-in ethernet is 'en0'. I enabled sharing from 'en0' to 'en2' under the 'Sharing' section of System Settings.

Through experimentation I discovered that the mini isn't properly running DHCP when sharing in this way. It shares its external connection over the wifi as 192.168.2.1, and I need to set client machines to the 192.168.2.x subnet to make the connection work. I have two DNS servers on my campus network and I've included those manually in the connection configuration on the tablet.

I can connect to the mini from the tablet fine. I can ping anything in the world by their IP address. I just can't get domain names working. I even added global DNS ips to the manual list and in /etc/resolv.conf but to no avail. Despite being able to ping these IPs, I can't resolve any names. This is not a problem of the ad-hoc network, though, because I've attached an iMac to this network with the same settings and it worked.

Anyone had similar problems? I suspect something in the nslookup-type stuff of the N800.

Thanks for any help.

There were problem related to avahi but it's not by default on OS2008.
Which OS?

OS2008

Thanks...