As I now have userspace nat working really well with just one userspace application running (instead of the aproach quole had tried out with my help) we could think of putting that together with the kernel aproach under the same gui - for the ones not that daring to flash the kernel.
Maybe one additional word about userland aproach - joikuspot has
dependencies to the kernel as well. So if you get a kernel update from
nokia you still would at least have to recompile the joikuspot-kernel-
module against ist - which is possible as this part was put under GPL.
Till recently I was quite happy with my aproach using PAN instead
of WLAN where all the interactivity needed is done by already present
software on the N900 - just added a udev script which starts up my
nat application automatically. This aproach also uses much less
power than WLAN...
But when I tried to connect my wife's mobile (android 1.6 - HTC tattoo)
to the N900 for internet connection I figured out that obviously PAN is
not supported - or I'm just too dumb.
For that case it would have been nice to be able to enable wireless.
So what do you say.
What my userland-aproach would need is the same setup of the
wireless part but just without DHCP, an IP-Address and any NAT-Rules.
Instead of that you would just do e.g. an "ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0" to bring
the interface up and start an applciation pointing to wlan0.
A good place to host the two patched needed for qemu and what is
needed to build would probably be the mobilehotspot garage project.