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 <[email protected]> > brilliant. sounds promising...at least i know now that it can be done! > > :) > > 2009/11/25 Alan Pope <[email protected]> > >> 2009/11/25 javadayaz <[email protected]>: >> > 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. >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Javad > -- Regards Javad
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