It is possible to create a network connection between a Maemo device (N8×0) and a Host PC in several ways: USB, Bluetooth and WLAN. The PC-Connectivity project just released the Beta 1 version of two applets to help the users and developers to connect the device to a PC with a single click. The PC to connect is not restricted to be a Linux machine, as MAC and Windows are also supported.
PC Connectivity Manager
Connection Switcher
The first applet called “PC Connectivity Manager” is placed at Maemo “Control Panel”. It allows the user to enable/disable the connections and also to setup them changing IP address, netmask, etc.. The second applet called “Connection Switcher” is placed at Maemo status bar. It is the faster way to enable/disable the connections.
Besides the network connection features, the applets also allow us to configure other connection tools, such as x11vnc and nfs sharing. It is also possible to create “environments”, so different settings can be configured for different PCs.
For more details:
- PC Connectivity Beta 1 pages
- Installation
- Configuring USB, Bluetooth, WLAN (ad-hoc)
would this allow me to create an ad-hoc wifi network with a dhcp server running on the tablet, so that somebody else can connect to that ad-hoc network and have their ip autoconfigured?
would this allow me to configure the tablet as an “ethernet usb gadget” - again, with dhcp server - so that when i configure it and hook the tablet to a pc using the usb cable, the pc detects this as network interface an automatically gets an ip?
this would be nice for situations where one has a webserver running on the tablet (e.g. for demo purposes) and allows others to quickly connect and view the demo content served by the web server in a meeting without configuration hassles.
Hi thp, tks for your comment. The ad-hoc wifi network we are creating does not have dhcp running on the tablet at the moment. We have this feature in mind and it should be available in the next releases. Same for usb network. Cheers.
One variation of this idea, which would be very cool as well, would be to be able to configure the tablet to provide internet connectivity to a computer connected with USB. It just needs some IP Masquerading stuff configured, I think. Would be pretty useful if your laptop doesn’t have a wifi card
so it means i can use my pc network in the n8×0 via USB cable? THAT’S AWESOME…
i just don’t know if the USB port speed on the n800 will handle it well
Hey, great post, really well written. You should post more about this.
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Saurooon
Thanks guy.
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