From: Carlos M. <car...@gm...> - 2005-10-25 21:05:04
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On 25/10/05, Andreas Mohr <an...@us...> wrote: > But OTOH it doesn't look TOO bad, should be relatively easily fixable... With some precision soldering yes. The connections from the socket to the PCB have all been ripped apart, and each has a different length. There's another pic on now. The thing that's slightly off to one side is the socket. The soldering skill that would be needed is clearly way above me. The only soldering I've done was two or three years ago (back in compulsory education) with much bigger chunks of stuff. Each of the connectors is slightly less than 1mm wide. One could try to hold it in place, but I don't know. > > BTW, let me guess... this incredible temporary internet hack involves lot= s of > OSS solutions? My original almost-improvised solution was to use a Pentium III as a router using Linux. This was using the USB device quite happily. The reason it was spur-of-the-moment is because it was the fastest way to get my brother to shut up about the Internet connection. I was getting the system ready so that on Monday all we had to do was turn it on and All Would Be Good. I still have to load the iptables rules by hand, activate IP forwarding and load the driver. I was going to test the start-up scripts, but my brother was already heavily relying on this solution (thus my comment on showing people proof-of-concept). > Now let me guess that this would be absolutely impossible using dumb Wind= ows > functionality? ;) > > (ok, maybe I'm totally wrong, but who knows... ;) The reason I'm surprised it (the improvised hack) works is precisely because I'm using Windows. The network will only lease an IP (and permit access) to the MAC address of the USB device, so I changed the MAC on my desktop and I use that to connect. The AP is then connected through Ethernet and everything else through that. I would have done it using Linux, but I wasn't sure how to change the MAC address. Another reason is that I was just back from spending half a day walking and couldn't be bothered getting up again and changing the antennas on the cards, and the whole setup was almost as I wanted it with Windows anyway, because I was giving the router access to the Internet (this was before it became the router) using my desktop. Note that my router uses Linux From Scratch, so there is little in the form of automation. I've modified the network scripts so they work as I need them to, but they're largely untested. Some weren't working yesterday, but they should now. We'll see what tomorrow brings. The most surprising thing is that I told Windows I wanted to share it through a network. Said network (ethernet card) isn't actually active. Everything goes through another card and another set of IP addresses. This is what boggles my mind. Windows asks me (demands of me) which network I'd like to share it with, changes its IP address without any notice, sets up a DHCP server and then doesn't even check where the packets are coming from! cmn -- Carlos Mart=EDn Nieto http://www.cmartin.tk "=BFHan entendido?" "S=ED, nosotros vemos La 2" -- Emilio, "Aqu=ED no hay quien viva" |