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Hi all,

I moved to a new house and for the time being I access the internet exculsively through my n900's mobile account.

While checking if Mobile Hotspot was working I used my gf's Galaxy S2 and my signal was nowhere to be found. I also tried it with Qt Mobile Hotspot, with the same results.

I tried a passwordless as well as a protected WAP and the SG2 found no network. I took my EEE and it connected immediately, the same for the laptop and my spare n900. So I added the N900 WAP manually into the list of WAP's on the GS2 but now it tells me the network is not within reach.

So the question is: Has anyone else had trouble tethering to a Galaxy S2?

It is in no way a vital problem, as my gf uses her own dataplan, but the fact it doesn't work made me google around and since I couldn't find anything usefull, I figured I'd pop the question here.
 
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AFAIK (1) the N900 only works as an ad-hoc AP.
AFAIK (2) Android does not have support for ad-hoc WLAN.

Bad mix, I'm afraid.

Please anyone confirm (1) and/or (2).
 

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Originally Posted by reinob View Post
AFAIK (1) the N900 only works as an ad-hoc AP.
AFAIK (2) Android does not have support for ad-hoc WLAN.

Bad mix, I'm afraid.

Please anyone confirm (1) and/or (2).
I confirm Android does not work with AD-HOC networks.
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IMHO.. Android has 100% Ad-Hoc Support..

check out the link in signature.. the one which says
"SOLVED Nitdroid Ad-Hoc tether"

follow the section which explains how to use ZT-AD-HOC-TERTHER

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Originally Posted by immi.shk View Post
IMHO.. Android has 100% Ad-Hoc Support..

check out the link in signature.. the one which says
"SOLVED Nitdroid Ad-Hoc tether"

follow the section which explains how to use ZT-AD-HOC-TERTHER

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To me it still does not. Android does not support AD-HOC networks out of the box. I have never succeeded an unrooted android phone to discover an AD-HOC network.

Maybe your solution will work, thanks for sharing it.
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Thank you all for your replies. I am quite amazed the SG2 does not support ad hoc connections out of the box. Would be a nice addition to an otherwise pretty decent consumer device.

@immi

I´ll have a look at the suggestions you linked, but gf´s device is not rooted and the route to go and tether from my debian laptop seems odd as well, if it even works. But thanks for sharing.
 
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