[CLUG] Using my laptop to feed an AP

[Peter Flynn]

On 03/02/11 21:16, William Walsh wrote:
> Just root your hero and install a rooted tether

I didn't particularly want to root the Hero, as it will lose me some of 
the HTC apps I use. And I doubt if the wifi-serving capabilities of an 
old phone would stand up to a dozen people, whereas if all it has to do 
it handle the through-traffic, without having to deal with the wifi 
part, it might survive.

///Peter


> On 3 Feb 2011 21:02, "Peter Flynn" <peter at silmaril.ie
> <mailto:peter at silmaril.ie>> wrote:
>  >
>  > It's been more than a decade since I had to get this down and dirty
> with networking :-) and as a result I have forgotten most of what I once
> knew.
>  >
>  > Requirement: I have to give a training course in a room with no
> network connection of any type. Students will all have wifi-enabled
> laptops, but few if any will have 3G dongles.
>  >
>  > What I have: an Ubuntu 10.4 Dell Latitude D610 laptop with an
> Ethernet port; a HTC Hero which works nicely as a 3G connection when
> cabled to the laptop via USB, but which is not capable of running Froyo;
> and an old WiFlyer pocket wifi AP router (eg
> http://www.mobiletechreview.com/tips/WiFlyer.htm)
>  >
>  > I want to set the laptop so that it will forward the IP connection
> from the phone on the USB port, out of the Ethernet port and into the
> WiFlyer, which will broadcast to the users. It will be slow, of course,
> but better than nothing.
>  >
>  > The last time I did anything vaguely like this was back in the days
> of pre-wireless dial-up, when I configured an old desktop running Red
> Hat 4 to perform demand-dial for the house (wired) LAN :-)
>  >
>  > The wireless widget in the toolbar of the Lucid laptop has an entry
> "Create a new wireless network"...I suppose it's too much to hope that
> the laptop itself could act as an AP (without having to go through the
> WiFlyer). I haven't dared try it because I don't trust NetworkManager
> not to crash and burn...unless anyone knows different. In any event, the
> laptop isn't the fastest machine in the universe, and having to show my
> slides and do demos during the course, asking it to act as an AP would
> probably kill it, whereas simply port-forwarding the connection
> shouldn't chew up too many cycles.
>  >
>  > ///Peter
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