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I use quite a lot joikuspot when I'm working on the move, converting my mobile phone into a wlan server, and connecting my laptop on the net over a cheap 3g phone option.
With my old ubuntu computer and network manager, it was connecting smoothly, but since I want, on my asus 1005ha netbook, a very light system (thanks a lot Arch linux), and since wicd doesn't work out of the box, I choose to configure the network manually.
Here's how :
Joikuspot establishes an Ad-hoc network, so you have to configure the network to an ad-hoc network while being down. I use wlan0, your wifi card driver may differ.
On your mobile phone :
Start Joikuspot
In the settings, change the network name in a more simple one for your convenience
I choose to use Joikuspot without encryption
Put the channel on channel 6
Start the hot-spot
On the computer :
# dhcpcd wlan0 -x or # killall dhcpcd
# ifconfig wlan0 down
# iwvonfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc channel 6 essid "MyJoikuspot"
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# dhcpcd wlan0
If you get the SIOCSIFFLAGS error typing ifconfig, this could be a hardware problem : wifi shut off with on / off switch. On Asus 1005ha, the keyboard shortcut to power or cut off the wifi works (try several time to start / stop the wifi in combination with the ifconfig wlan0 up command). Also check wifi disabling in laptop-mode tools.
And its should work !
Last edited by joel.obrecht (2010-03-07 11:56:10)
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