How to connect through "ad hoc"

[mpancorbo]

Recently, I visited a technologic park, with free wifi link. When I searched connections with my 770, I saw it, with open locker symbol and black dot (this means "ad hoc" protocol). The signal strength usually was at maximum.

I tried to connect with success, but appeared message "Conneted with local IP". In the IP-information I could see no gateway, dns, etc. So the internet connection didn't work.

What's the trick with "ad hoc"?

TIA

[brendan]

as far as i know you need to install olsrd and configure it. OLSRd is the wireless ad-hoc protocol that things like PSP use. i couldnt help you with the config... sorry.

[timsamoff]

It's March 2007, I have a new N800, and I have this issue as well... Does anyone have a fix for this?

Tim

[timsamoff]

Of course, this might answer my question:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1302&highlight=hoc

I was unaware of this!

-T.

[johsua]

The ad hoc network you are connecting to must route/share/bridge (whichever the correct term is) its internet connection to its ad hoc connection. For my thinkpad this works for a couple of minutes, but it didn't like the way the 770 stayed connected. So - it would drop. It would take several minutes, a restart, or a network reset to get the two to connect again. I think that it was a hardware issue on the TP side. I haven't tried it again with the n800. This would be a great thing to have work in a situation where you didn't have a wireless router, but you did have an ethernet connection - like where I work... I should try this again...

Good luck.