Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

I didn't talked about the N900 app, I was talking about the drivers of some other machines. some of them only accept WEP keys only in hex form, others only as ASCII even if all should be able to use both. I also have a device that allows me to use WEP keys with one single ASCII character! And no it is not filled with some dummy dater afterwards.
It's just a bad coded driver... that's why I don't like WEP encryption, but it is better than nothing.

what ever that shouldn't be your problem... or maybe it could be.
Would it be hard to implement a counter to show the user how many characters are left for a specific WEP encryption? I mean there are WEP64, WEP128 and even a WEP256. All of them are available as hex and ASCII. So it would be cool if there would be a pop up that tells you "you reach the right length for an ASCII-WEP-64 key" or something like that.
at least a message that informs you that you got a valid length for a WEP key.

maybe it is the time... but how do i copy in the x terminal?! ctrl+c doesn't work and i can't use a remote ssh connection.

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

It's not hard, just not done yet, iwconfig supports only WEP64 and WEP128.

In the title-menu there are copy and paste options (ctrl-c is "break", a process control signal.)

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Thanks rambo and all who contributed! This is exactly what I was hoping for when I was looking into joikuspot; something that simply tied together netfilter, kernel nat, wireless tools, etc.

Works perfectly! :)

(posted through mobilehotspot)

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

hmm ok i slowly got pissed because the update for kernel-flasher-maemo 2.6.28-maemo23 was shown but i couldn't install it. the previous version and mobilhotspot was blocking some files.
so i had to deinstall mobilhotspot first and then the kernel-flasher app... then I was able to install the new version of the kernel-flasher and after that the mobilhotspot.... and now everything is working again :-)

do i have to do that everytime from now on?

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Probably not, kernel-maemo got renamed to kernel-power and that probably caused interesting depedency issues. hotspot itself does no depend on specific version of anything.

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

hey. I have a slight issue regarding this app. dont worry, ive searched two of the threads and found no cure..

a few days ago, when i installed mobilehotspot, it worked perfectly but noticed my cpu freq is capped at 600mhz (i was using lehto's 900mhz kernel)..

two days later, i decided to flash my device back to 900mhz and ever since, my mobilehotspot stopped working: it gives me a "hotspot failed to start" error message.

tried reinstalling, rebooting, the whole nine yards... still no difference.

any ideas ?

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Try starting it from the command line (as root) with:

It should give you more information.

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

okay, this is what i got:


DEBUG: executing uname -r
DEBUG: executing lsmod
DEBUG: executing insmod /lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/nf_conntrack.ko
DEBUG: Command output: insmod: can't read '/lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/nf_conntrack.ko': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/mobilehotspot_backend", line 14, in <module>
sys.exit(backend.cli())
File "/home/opt/mobilehotspot/libs/backend.py", line 395, in cli
backend.start()
File "/home/opt/mobilehotspot/libs/backend.py", line 131, in start
self.start_insert_modules()
File "/home/opt/mobilehotspot/libs/backend.py", line 141, in start_insert_modules
self.state['kernel']['loaded_modules'][modulename] = self.test_insert_module(modulename)
File "/home/opt/mobilehotspot/libs/backend.py", line 371, in test_insert_module
helpers.exec_cmd('insmod ' + self.module_directory + '/' + module + '.ko')
File "/home/opt/mobilehotspot/libs/helpers.py", line 12, in exec_cmd
raise Exception("Command '" + cmd + "' returned with code " + str(return_code) + " (" + str(expect_code) + " expected)")
Exception: Command 'insmod /lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/nf_conntrack.ko' returned with code 256 (0 expected)

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Well, according to that, you're on the stock kernel; did you try reflashing lehto's or titan's kernel?

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

well thats weird, im pretty sure im running on 900mhz.. according to Conky of course..but is that the issue why hotspot "failed to start"?