brilliant. sounds promising...at least i know now that it can be done! :)
2009/11/25 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> > 2009/11/25 javadayaz <javada...@gmail.com>: > > yes my phone has wifi...but i dont have a wifi router or modem... > > > > so i want my laptop to dump its wifi signal which i can then use to do my > > internet browsing on my phone. > > > > I did this the other way around over a year ago at an Ubuntu Developer > Summit. We had wifi access but one of the guys had a broken wifi > adapter. So I connected to the wireless LAN and installed firestarter. > We plugged an ethernet cable between his laptop and mine, then I ran > firestarter to share my wifi signal over ethernet to his laptop. Easy > as pie. > > Doing it the other way round should be just as trivial. You can also > use network manager to "create a wifi network" which turns your wifi > signal into an 'ad-hoc' one, that others can connect to. > > Also, apologies for my earlier top-post, as I was using gmail on my > android phone :( > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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