[NTLUG:Discuss] A potentially useful thing

[MadHat Unspecific]

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> As the rule goes, if I were to think of it, it has either already been 
> done or has already been proven to be a bad idea or a waste of time.  My 
> guess is, in this case, it has already been done.
> 
> I'm in Japan at the moment.  I'm running Fedora 9 on my laptop.  I'm 
> connected wired.  I have a blackberry phone that is WiFi enabled and is 
> supposed to be able to make voice calls using the WiFi link.  At the 
> moment, I cannot though I can get my email and stuff.
> 
> I'd like to turn my laptop into a wireless gateway that, I hope, will 
> also enable me to make phone calls.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas about what I need to do to turn my wireless 
> network device into a wireless access point?  I would especially favor 
> anything that doesn't necessarily require a lot of destructive 
> configurations and such.

I know it can be done, but I think it depends on the chipset and the 
driver.  I have done it on a desktop, with DHCP server and iptables MASQ 
(I think).

http://www.google.com/search?q=Linux+Access+point

The first few links give the details, but the mising part will be the 
drivrs specific to what you have.  The rest of the date, while older, 
should still be pretty close to what you want to do.

You could also try and set it up in Ad-Hoc mode with some fancy routing. 
  Issue there being with the blackberry.  I don't remember them having 
much in the way of options on the wireless side.

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