Yes, I assumed iwconfig's error was fatal, my bad. However, it still doesn't work. Anyone else wants to take a pass at it?
This isn't entirely unexpected: according to this the wl12xx driver series is not known to work in AP mode. Seems like you may have determined that it doesn't work. I will try to take a stab at setting it up this weekend (along with trying to finish compiling mupen64plus)
I wonder how they intent to handle NAT (supposing they do not wish to flash the kernel)
simply compile up a bunch of kernel modules which can be loaded when the program starts - you don't even have to have them in the /lib/modules/n.nn.... directory, just insmod rather than modprobe
simply compile up a bunch of kernel modules which can be loaded when the program starts - you don't even have to have them in the /lib/modules/n.nn.... directory, just insmod rather than modprobe
The NAT modules can't be used this way with the existing kernel (at least as shipped with PR1, I haven't confirmed with PR1.1).
simply compile up a bunch of kernel modules which can be loaded when the program starts - you don't even have to have them in the /lib/modules/n.nn.... directory, just insmod rather than modprobe
According to this thread, no. That's not going to work.
Hi all.
After two days of pajama hacking I'm now sure that stock 2009.42-11 kernel cannot support NAT modules in a proper way, because the netfilter core is compiled in without CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK or CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE (see line 214 of net/netfilter/core.c).
So, no matter how hard we try to get a "debian-polite" way to add needed modules to this kernel, they will simply not work.
I'm posting this to see how other people involved in tethering projects would think about what we are in front of, specifically:
* Build a new, more modulable, kernel without getting too far from the rx51_defconfig and go with it.
* Go completely userland via proxies of any sort, even heavily tweaked for low resource usage.
Got latest "apt-get source kernel" few days ago "make rx51_defconfig" yields config that does not have conntrack symbols enabled.
So no NAT modules for PR1.1 stock kernel, when I have more time I'll make a script that will build a hotspot version of the latest kernel in repos (basically "apt-get source", patch a bunch of things, rename directories and packages and run dpkg-buildpackage)
this post outlines userland approach that might be worth considering (OTOH it's possible to flash the kernel from a .deb. I just consider it more than a bit sleazy to do that without showing some large disclaimers [other than the nokia default one] firsty).
