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does anyone have hotspot working? - quixote - 02-18-2020

When I use the GUI to start hotspot, it kills wifi. The laptop (running Debian 10, kde) sees the phone and connects. But nothing sees the web since there's no wifi.

(Not sure what it's using to see the phone in the list of possible connections!)

If you have got it working, a command-by-command summary would be perfect!

RE: does anyone have hotspot working? - Boern - 02-19-2020

Isn't the point of a hotspot to kill Wifi and instead offer your cellular data connection to others over Wifi?
I guess you'd actually need two Wifi chips to have an active WIfi connection and a hotspot open.

RE: does anyone have hotspot working? - PinePhoneCoder - 02-19-2020

I did not try this yet, would be an intresting feature. Not sure the wifi adapter is capable, will find out later.

RE: does anyone have hotspot working? - quixote - 02-19-2020

Um, I take it I can just put a big redface icon in my sig and be done, right? BlushBlushBlush (Nowhere near red enough, that's why multiples.)

So the problem  with not seeing the web is that the *modem* isn't really working, while the wifi is fine?

(I'm a biologist who never really "got" networking of any kind, so bear with me here.)

So what is my actual question?

The internet connection is via mobile phone plans. This is the situation:
  • one SIM in an iphone (which I soon hope never to use again Big Grin ) which works in the sense of providing the laptop with internet access
  • one SIM in my pinephone which was working for sms and browsing on the phone.
  • The pinephone shows up in the laptop's list of network connections, and it connects and shows data going between phone and laptop. But nothing on the laptop can actually see the internet.
So it would seem that the mobile data connection is functional since it works on the pinephone itself. There's also some kind of connection being established between pinephone and laptop that's visible in networkmanager. (I'm on Debian 10 with kde.)

What's the roadmap to get the pinephone to actually provide internet access to the laptop?

RE: does anyone have hotspot working? - PinePhoneCoder - 02-19-2020

I think you need to bridge the devices or so.

I did that with a Raspberry PI once, maybe you can find the answer here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point.md

Do you want to make a tutorial on this once you get it working?

Success!

RE: does anyone have hotspot working? - quixote - 02-19-2020

(02-19-2020, 04:11 PM)PinePhoneCoder Wrote: Do you want to make a tutorial on this once you get it working?

IF I get it working, I'll be glad to Big Grin

RE: does anyone have hotspot working? - PinePhoneCoder - 02-20-2020

Thank you, if you not get it working share then the steps you did, so I can continue from there.

You can do this!! Smile