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Now done, new debs are in SVN, old debs taken out so not to confuse people.

Edit: reverted, see http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=162

Ignore my ranting about broken kernel source package, it's not the official Maemo package, it's a package someone (not naming names right now) uploaded to extras-devel (obviously having a "kernel" package there is a very bad idea...)

edit: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...ry/003940.html

Blatant cross-posting about some of my kernel packaging ideas, please go see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...091#post532091

I'd like to say thank you to Rambo. You've made possible what i've needed for so long. Following the instructions on the project page. I was able to tether from the ipod touch to the n900's 3G without any reboots.

And I say Thanks again.

(Note: You might want to add to the instructions, that the .py script should be made executable. ex. chmod a+x hotspot_frontend.py)

Just a note here that I've managed to get the N900 to be a slow, wobbly hotspot without any kernel hacking, using vde2 in Easy Debian and the guidance of wek and greygoo... Here's my howto. I'm hoping others with more experience will step in and help out here, as well.

Minor progress: there's now .deb of the backend/frontend scripts with .desktop file and the instructions have been updated accordingly

hey,

I'm eager to get this going, and not afraid to tinker...
but having real trouble finding any of the packages in the first three steps of the instructions :

Install python-dbus, python-gconf and python-hildon (Maemo extras)
Install wireless-tools (Nokia repo)
Install iptables (Maemo extras devel)

any pointers ?


All the work, very much appreciated

these are nort in user/* categories so you need to use "apt-get install packagename" (as root obivously) to install them. extras-devel you need to enable in the appplication manager before installing iptables and should disable after doing it.

sorry, should've thought of that.

So I've followed the instructions, installed everything ( the first three steps all seemed to be already up to date ).

when i try to run mobilehotspot though i'm getting :



Is my backend not running for some reason maybe ?

Did you reboot after installing hotspot-kernel-flasher (to take the new kernel into use)?

Then to the error: It cannot connect to the DBUS, which is kinda weird: however the frontend can (and should) be run as user.