[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu tethering

[javadayaz]

i played with this but couldnt get it to work...plus why isnt there a button
that just switches on the wifi.?

2009/11/25 javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com>

> 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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Regards

Javad
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