Exact same output from terminal start ? Then you're not actually running the power kernel (or any other kernel that provides NAT), try reinstalling it (quickest way is from terminal as root: "apt-get install --reinstall kernel-power-flasher && reboot")
installed the custom kernal and im not seeing iptables or wireless tools in the package manager. repos arent showing any errors. tried installing iptables from http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ables/1.4.6-5/ the package manager reports and incompatable version. what am i overlooking? thanks!
The hotspot itself should have failed to install if iptables and wireless tools could not have been installed, check with "dpkg -l 'iptables'" the available (and possibly installed) versions.
But are you getting errors when starting the hotspot or what is the higher level problem ?
i downloaded the iptables deb with microb and saved to documents but navigating around directories in xterm im not able to locate the downloaded deb.shouldnt it be something like home/user/documents?
youre saying iptables and wireless-tools are not in the package manger and im to download them and dpkg in xterm, correct?
Yes and no, the HAM by default shows you only the user/* categories since that's what the users are interested in, libraries and low-level system software are not shown as not to confuse the normal user.
It still knows about all the software in the repositories and can automatically install any dependencies.
To install stuff (from repositories) via terminal use apt-get:
Code:
apt-get install iptables wireless-tools
Installing from plain debs is painfull for any piece of software with nontrivial dependencies and everything you need (unless you compiled it yourself but then you know what you are doing [i hope]) is available in some repo if it's available in packaged form at all (there are good reasons why 3rd party repos are frowned upon but certain members of this community do run their own repos for various defendable reasons).
Do note that apt-get caches a bunch of data that HAM does not, this "wastes" space on the 2GB partition and in general you should either stick with HAM or educate yourself on details of how the Debian package management tools work (so that you know which caches should be removed manually and which not).
i downloaded the iptables deb with microb and saved to documents but navigating around directories in xterm im not able to locate the downloaded deb.shouldnt it be something like home/user/documents?
/home/user/MyDocs/.documents probably (the "dotfiles" are not sown with ls by default and this special naming convention is used to allow the file manager et co to localize the names of these standard locations).
$
DEBUG: executing ifconfig wlan0 10.97.195.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
DEBUG: executing /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -i wlan0 -a 10.97.195.1 -I lo -z -x /var/run/dnsmasq.wlan0.pid --dhcp-range=10.97.195.10,10.97.195.100,6h --dhcp-option=3,10.97.195.1 --dhcp-option=6,10.97.195.1
DEBUG: Command output:
dnsmasq: failed to bind listening socket for 10.97.195.1: Address already in use
For some reason there is already something (probably another dnsmasq instance) bound to the interface in the ports that we try to use, try rebooting (or killing whatever if binding the ports [this requires some specialist Linux and networking knowledge, "does not fit in this margin"]) and then try to start via termial (don't start the frontend at all)
