On Thursday 28 Feb 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > I have a wired internet connection at home and my laptop is using it. > I would like my mobile (which supports wi-fi) to use the network > connection that my laptop has to save me some money- nice when your > laptop is not very mobile and stuck with the network wire, while you > can move around the building with the mobile. > > so one option is to setup the laptop as an access point that the > mobile can use. > > Raj talked about this sometime back. Are there any docs that people > can provide which explains how to set it up in a secure way? I > haven't gone beyond "iwconfig eth1 node master". I need DHCP and > preferably WPA.
iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid 'sandip' channel 11 (or whatever) Now your laptop is a P2P WiFi AP, and you can connect any other WiFi device that does Ad-Hoc networking with it. Of course, this will only work if the laptop itself isn't connected to an AP (i.e. in Managed mode) -- you can only run it in one of Managed or Ad-Hoc modes at any time. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || February 2008 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
