Re: [LUG] Ubuntu Hot Spot

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Lloyd-Jones <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

At home I can use my Android phone to control my model railroad via Ubuntu and JMRI. However I wish to take it to the club, which will be difficult as I would need to take both my router and the netgear wireless network access point "thingy".

I feel a should be able to use just the "thingy" with my PC or just my lappy by itself (which has (a working) wifi built in) but I can not work out how.

I believe it is called creating a "hot spot". Apples do it almost automagically.

Thanks in advance

Peter L-J

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Although I haven't tried it myself this may help:

http://jaap.haitsma.org/2010/08/17/make-portable-hotspot-with-gnome-network-manager/

Otherwise you may be able to set your Android phone up as a wireless access point to achieve the same thing (you may need Android 2.2 to do this and it's also worth checking with your provider to make sure they allow tethering as the phone will class connecting to the phone via wifi as tethering, although you could always set a static IP address on each device with a different gateway address to get around it trying to connect to the phone via the net).

Rob
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