Comments on: Surfing Internet without a wireless access point

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: herraiz

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:59:54 +0000

Thanks for the additions to the howto!

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Ochipepe

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:50:34 +0000

To those that do not manage to connect their nokia 770 to the laptop, here are some further instructions that may be helpfull (bear in mind that I have a laptop connected by Ethernet and configured via DHCP)

- I followed Isra instructions, plus Martin’s tip (11), although I don’t know if it’s required.

- to identify your DNS, use
cat /etc/resolv.conf

- In nokia770 network configuration advanced menu, add the following parameters:

IP 10.0.0.2
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 10.0.0.01

DNS 1 and 2: whatever you found out with “cat /etc/resolv.conf”

Note 1: if the laptop was configured to connect to a WEP encrypted wifi network, it will ask for the key, unless you reconfigure it. If you don’t remember it, just type
iwconfig

Note 2: I found the info required to bridge the gaps in the tutorial with these refs: to know what to put in the subnet maks field, the part about the DNS fields.
Thanks a lot to Isra, now I can play with my nokia770 without having to buy a router!

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Texrat

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:11:13 +0000

I’m looking for a how to on this when the laptop is running Windows XP and gets a dynamic IP via DHCP. I tried using Internet Connection Sharing and telling the 770 to use the network name I created, but the 770 was unable to retrieve an IP address. I’m assuming ICS is supposed to use the laptop’s WiFi connection, right?

I also created a bridge between the laptop’s WiFi and LAN, but after that I could no longer access the Internet on the laptop… help, anyone?

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: herraiz

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:02:37 +0000

Yes, you are right. Thanks!

I forgot to include that.

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Martin Ebourne

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:36:59 +0000

If trying to use the forwarding above then you may also need the following on the Linux laptop:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

This enables forwarding, which is probably disabled by default. Until forwarding is enabled the iptables line won’t even be used.

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: herraiz

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:07:40 +0000

#2: You can use SSH to pass files from/to your computer or gadget. But if need something more, you can use your compute as a NFS server and your Nokia 770 as NFS client. More instructions at http://vidar.gimp.org/n770/slackware.phpx

#3: Ok. Thank you for the recommendation, but I tried to solve my particular problem: I have a wired connection at home, and a laptop, and I preferf to setup the laptop as a router, rather than to buy a new one . Anyway, thanks again.

#4: Sorry, I am not a Windows user.

#5: Take a look at this.

#7: Yes, you are right. It is not so easy with linux, but although so difficult

#9: Sorry, I do not know any other method. Anyway, there is no problem, you can use any IP range for the wireless connection (not only 192.168.0.1, but also 192.168.7.1, 10.0.0.1, 10.0.3.1, 10.0.0.143, etc etc,; that is, if you use a private IP range is enough). And you can use any other range IP in the wired connection (of course, wired and wireless connections must have differente ranges).

Rest of #: Thanks for your comments .

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Teemu Harju

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:56:27 +0000

Does anyone know a way to route this adhoc WLAN connection to my Internet interface without this the “bridging” or “internet connection sharing”? ICS forces me to use the 192.168.0.1 IP and I don’t want that. Also this bridging doesn’t seem to work for me.

There is this “route” command in Windows as well. Does anyone have a hint about how it works? Thanks…

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Tor

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:12:46 +0000

As for the XP SP2 and the Bluetooth comments - here is a link to a web page that should answer both questions. I have successfully used the information there to set up internet access through BlueTooth for a Palm+laptop on Windows (and on Linux too, only looking at the Palm part).
http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/
The person having trouble with outgoing connections should look specifically at the parts where Network Acess/Internet Connection Sharing is explained, particularly looking for that tickbox which says something like ‘Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection’. Just substitute where it says BT with your Wi-Fi card.

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Avi Flax

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:32:05 +0000

Nice tip - I personally do this with either an Apple Airport Express or PowerBook. Easier for people with less tech expertise.

Comment on Surfing Internet without a wireless access point by: Andy

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:00:14 +0000

When I’m at work I use create a peer to peer wireless connection between my laptop and the 770 and then you have to bridge the LAN connection and the wireless connection (CTRL & click both LAN and wireless connections in network settings and right click and select bridge) so that the 770 can see the internet via the LAN.