[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I have a neo1973 and I wish I could connect it to my Laptop in order >to access the internet ( I use Ubuntu 7.10 ). >I followed this page on the wiki >http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Networking but nothing... my neo >won't connect to the internet! Everything seems ok but the internet >connection...
(what follows is for Debian Linux. If you've got another Linux, mapping this to your environment should be straightforward. If you're running Windows... oh, well). There are a bunch of things that could be happening -- in a nutshell, you need to make sure that your laptop will route appropriate packets to your NEO, and that it will forward packets. My first problem when I tried setting up networking was that my home network is 192.168.0.x, and of course the NEO wants 192.168.0.202. So the first thing I did was to edit the NEO's /etc/network/interfaces to use IP 192.168.200.202, with gateway 192.168.200.200. I also set the DNS server to 192.168.200.200. On my laptop, I edited /etc/network/interfaces to include allow-hotplug usb0 iface usb0 inet static address 192.168.200.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 So now, when a usb0 net interface is created by plugging in the NEO, the NEO and the laptop can talk to each other. I set the NEO's DNS server to be my laptop because I'm already running dnsmasq on the laptop for other reasons, and this way I don't need to reconfigure the NEO depending on whether I'm at home or at work. Next, I needed to turn on packet forwarding on the laptop. This required editing my /etc/sysctl.conf to uncomment the line net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Finally, turning on NAT in my laptop's firewall finished the job. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community