[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu tethering

[javadayaz]

brilliant. sounds promising...at least i know now that it can be done!

:)

2009/11/25 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>

> 2009/11/25 javadayaz <javadayaz at 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.
>
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Regards

Javad
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