Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

In case I was not clear, this is the Vista manual IP configuration, Google is your friend: http://tinyurl.com/275poof

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

That clear things up a bit for me, rambo. Would I have to do this for every device that connects to my n900? Is there a way to make changes on my n900 so other device can connect to it without having to change any settings?

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Well the dnsmasq in DHCP server mode should serve DHCP (automatic IP configuration) just fine and in many cases does, however there are some cases where the client devices don't like the flavor of the dnsmasq DHCP and require manual configuration (or there might be some other issue, I haven't encountered this problem and establishing the root cause with certainty will require fairly extensive knowledge in networking fundamentals).

In some cases manual configuration does not help either (but the "physical" wifi layer claims there's a link), then it get's really hairy to debug.

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Installed Titan's kernel yesterday to get Mobile Hotspot working, and after a little playing around I'm extremely impressed. It connected to my brother's N97 Mini, and was giving excellent speeds at a distance of up to 15 metres! I have noticed iPhones and iPods seems a little reluctant to connect to the network, but once they have it works fantastically. I now plan on buying a wifi only iPad to use as a laptop replacement in conjunction with my N900 and Mobile Hotspot for university next year. Nice work Rambo! :)

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Hi,
I bought Joikuspot when it was first released but recently got tired of the problems and moved to Mobile Hotspot. I have 2 problems

a) After about 20 to 30 minutes of using mobile hotspot I lose connectivity. When I restart mobilehotspot my phone crashes and reboots. The crash causes the OS to not load Titan when it comes up so I need to then reboot again. What's going on? Joikuspot also died after 20 minutes or so but the phone was super hot and I had to wait until it cooled before I could use it. Is there anything I can do?

b) When I loaded Mobile hotspot I added a shortcut to my desktop. The desktop icon is gone but the Desktop still thinks its there so I can't add it. How do I resolve this? I guess I can remove and reload but was curious if there was a fix. Thanks.

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

You probably mean the message where it says the saved (overclocking etc) settings were not loaded, no need to reboot you can load the settings from terminal http://wiki.maemo.org/Kernel_Power#C...ltage_settings

Are you running the kernel overclocked and if so how much ?

This crash too sounds like a heating issue, running both radios at full throttle (Ad-Hoc does not support the various WiFi powersaving extensions anyway and cellular will be loaded with traffick) will take plenty of power which equals plenty of waste heat.

There also might be a "crash log" in /dev/mtd2 ("cat /dev/mtd2" in terminal), if the kernel had time to write it before hitting the ground.


I Don't know what's the problem with desktop shortcut, someone else reported that they cannot add one at all, haven't had time to look into it, it's probably something small with the .desktop file.

If someone could try editing the .desktop file on their device and figure out what needs to be changed to get this working I'd be happy.

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

That's the only problem I have; I can't add a desktop shortcut at all (not an option when selecting Add Shortcut from the edit desktop menu).

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Just to 900 MHz. I only over heat using Joikuspot, not with Mobile hotspot. My issue is that Moble Hotspot crashes my phone.

I didn't see anything relevant at the end of my /dev/mtd2

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Can i use mobilehotspot with usbnetwork (dummy network) ?

Re: N900 as a Wifi Hotspot, part 2
 

Only bug I've noticed is that Mobile Hotspot will "fail to start" whilst the wall charger is plugged in. Needs to be plugged in once the connection has started. Otherwise, again, worked flawlessly for an hour with an iPad.