Ed Kapitein wrote: > Al Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 09 March 2009, KaZeR wrote: >> >>> Hello list. >>> >>> Last week i was in holidays, far away from home. And the Internet. >>> So i took my laptop, and setup a gprs connection using my Sony phone. Using >>> bluetooth it's done within a breath : setup a rfcomm channel to the >>> bluetooth serial port channel and you're almost done, using wvdial >>> >>> So two things came to my mind : >>> 1) it would be nice to be able to do the same thing using the FR. >>> 2) it would be even nicer to share the gprs connection from the FR using >>> wifi >>> >>> Anybody already tried this? >>> >> I expect it to work more like some other SonyEricsson phones that present a >> USB or Bluetooth network interface and allow the connecting machine to get >> networking details over DHCP. FSO has >> org.freesmartphone.Network.StartConnectionSharingWithInterface to do this, >> but >> I don't know whether it's been implemented yet. >> >> AdHoc connections may be possible over WiFi, but we can't behave as a >> basestation. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> >> > Slightly different, but perhaps usable: > > I use my FR as a router. The FR connects to internet over GPRS and i > connect my laptop top the FR over bluetooth. > Setting up the connection is done on the FR, you just need to use > masquerading with iptables and ip forwarding in the kernel. > It works rather well, although gprs is slow and ticket #2223 is not > solved yet. > > Hope this helps. > > Kind regards, > Ed > >
And how do you establish connection over Bluetooth? I am doing it myself, but just over USB cable. So I wonder how could it be possible over Bluetooth. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community