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Topic: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

I am using Jokuspot premuim as a wireless access point. My Chumby recognizes the network but I get the error message chumby.com is unreachable.

Can anyone explain to me the reason why?

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

Joikuspot.com not jokuspot - sorry

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

When you use Joikuspot with a normal computer and browser, does it present a click-through web page before you're able to access other sites?

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

No I purchased the Joikuspot premium which does not have a click through screen

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

OK, according to their FAQ, the wifi access point is presented as "ad hoc" - you'll need to take a look at this information.

The Chumby does not support "ad hoc" mode out-of-the-box, but there's a workaround.

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

I have tried the workaround but when i log on it does not seem to look for the adhoc wireless - it seem to ignore the debugchumby. I would really appreciate some guidance.

Shimon


Setting up an adhoc wifi network

Copy the following code into a file called debugchumby and place it on a USB storage drive, insert it into your chumby and boot it up. Be sure to replace werd with the ssid of your AdHoc network. Note that the script will endlessly attempt to connect to the network until it succeeds.
#!/bin/sh

ssid="werd"

connect()
{
    echo "scanning for access points"
    /usr/chumby/scripts/ap_scan
    echo "attempting to connect to $ssid"
    iwpriv rausb0 set NetworkType=Adhoc
    iwpriv rausb0 set TxRate=6
    iwpriv rausb0 set AdhocOfdm=2
    iwpriv rausb0 set AuthMode=OPEN
    iwpriv rausb0 set SSID="$ssid"
    iwpriv rausb0 set EncrypType=NONE
    iwpriv rausb0 set SSID="$ssid"
    sleep 10
}

connect
while [ `iwconfig rausb0|grep ESSID|awk -F: '{print $2}'` != \"$ssid\" ]; do
    connect
done

udhcpc -t 5 -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.rausb0.pid -i rausb0
# if you dont have a dhcp server running, comment the udhcpc line above and uncomment the following one
# ifconfig rausb0 10.10.10.2

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

What editor did you use to create the "debugchumby" file?

The file must use UNIX-style line endings (ie linefeeds).

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

I just did a cut and paste into notepad and saved without the txt extension.

What should I be doing? This is all new to me.

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

Notepad won't work.

See the top of this page for some recommendations for an editor to use.

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

Ok - I am now usin editword pro

I have copied the text from the link you sent me and clicked on convert to unix (LF only). I have saved the file as debugchumby to the USB and restarted the chumby .....still no luck!!

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

Did you change the ssid from "werd" to the ssid of your network?

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

yes

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Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

still does not work - it does not say scanning for access points.

What else can i try

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

Hi SL,

I'm trying the same exact thing: connect a Chumby One to Joikuspot adhoc network. I'm having the same exact problems that you had: have you solved them in some way?

Also, does anyone else has suggestions on how this can be achieved? I've already tried the ones described in this thread, but none of them worked.. sad

Thanks,
Alessandro

Re: Jokuspot - using cellphone as a wireless access point

The wireless driver in the chumby One has very good wext support, so it has no iwpriv extensions.

You might try this as a debugchumby script (completely untested):

#!/bin/sh
killall wpa_supplicant
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Joikuspot"
ifconfig wlan0 up
udhcpc -i wlan0