RE: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-09 Thread Jarmo.Tikka
Hi, Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:35:25 -0700 From: Kevin Kempter ke...@kevinkempterllc.com Subject: N900 as an internet device To: maemo-users@maemo.org Hi all; 2 questions: 1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access point. Is there a similar

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Ville M. Vainio
1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access point. Is there a similar app for the N900 Joikuspot. 2) Other than a wireless access point app, how do I use my N900 to connect my Linux laptop to the internet? At least tethering via usb works

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread James Knott
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; 2 questions: 1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access point. Is there a similar app for the N900 2) Other than a wireless access point app, how do I use my N900 to connect my Linux laptop to the internet?

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Luke Reeves
Couldn't the N900 share a 3G connection to multiple laptops as an access point though? Luke Reeves On 3/8/2010 12:44 PM, James Knott wrote: Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; 2 questions: 1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Andrea Borgia
Luke Reeves wrote: Couldn't the N900 share a 3G connection to multiple laptops as an access point though? There is some work in this area, please check out this discussion on t.m.o.: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30916 HTH, Andrea. ___

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin T. Neely
for 1) you can use Joikuspot On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kevin Kempter ke...@kevinkempterllc.comwrote: Hi all; 2 questions: 1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access point. Is there a similar app for the N900 2) Other than a

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Monday 08 March 2010 10:44:55 am James Knott wrote: Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; 2 questions: 1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access point. Is there a similar app for the N900 2) Other than a wireless access point app,

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Luke Reeves
JoikuSpot will do exactly what you need then. It's not free but it's pretty cheap: http://www.joikushop.com/index.php?action=productsmode=productDetailsproduct_id=1061 Luke On 3/8/2010 4:39 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 10:44:55 am James Knott wrote: Kevin Kempter

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Kevin Kempter wrote: 2) Other than a wireless access point app, how do I use my N900 to connect my Linux laptop to the internet? I don't know whether you'd like to have and point-and-click-solution of are prepared to reconfigure the device via the command line. In the latter case, I guess it