Using puppy as a wifi router - SOLVED

[gampr01]

Hi everyone,

Need some help with connection sharing, ultimately a step by step guide since i am quite new puppy user.

I need to share the internet connection i have on etho through wlan0, to operate my puppy machine as wifi access point. Tried shareinternet app from the forum without much luck, probably i could not configure it properly. So would be great if someone can advice me how to do this kind of connection sharing.

Thanks in advance!

[dancytron]

look here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 42&t=84269

[watchdog]

I did it using slacko 5.6 to connect a wifi not-3G tablet sharing the connection of a netbook with a 3G dongle. I followed the simplified how-to by SFR:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87584

[mikeb]

has the firewall wizard removed this option?

mike

[watchdog]

has the firewall wizard removed this option?

I rememeber I used a frugal install copying an already made install: it had firewall enabled but I did not touch anything about firewall. I can post my hostapd.conf if you need. I have to power on my netbook.

[mikeb]

Hmmm was told the firewall setup had a share internet option...I just use the usual 2 lines if I need to added to rc.local... just wondered if there was a simple user friendly way included

mike

[watchdog]

My /etc/hostapd.conf:

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interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=NetLink
hw_mode=g
channel=6
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=xxxxxxxxxx
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

Install shareinternet and hostapd in a frugal install. Connect to internet. Then:

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ifconfig wlan0 up 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf

Do not close the urxvt session. Launch shareinternet. Scan wifi ap on other device searching NetLink ssid. Connect using your passphrase and wpa2, Done.

[gampr01]

Thank you guys! Will try later today - hope it will work!

[gampr01]

Good news! this worked with Slacko 5.7. Have tried on Racy without result - for some reason bridge mode was shown as non existant.

The guide from here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 42&t=84269 worked on Slacko as is.

Tried also the solution using Hostapd and Shareinternet. The network showed up, but for some reason was not accepting any connections. Tried the solutions by SFR in the thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87584, same result.

[cthisbear]

gampr01:

Great result. Thanks for posting back.

Can you edit this as solved.

Good forum ettiquette...and also helps the next person in the queue
who does a search.

Using puppy as a wifi router - Solved

Cheers....Chris.