Successful Tethering for PRE!

Successful Tethering for PRE!

Hey All,

Me and Irix from the forum have successfully gotten the PRE to tether its connection over WIFI but are working on making it AD-HOC with the computer so you have a direct connection to the pre. I will post more on our findings.

Also found the correction word list has 2,475 words in it..

Are you going to release the instructions to us or just tell us that you have it?

Yes indeed i will... give me a few having to much fun here lol...

As you asked my friend.


http://www.everythingpre.com/forum/palm-pre/how-to-root-the-pre-20035.html

At the current point in time the method we are using does require you to carry around a wifi router so at this time i will not post instructions on how to do it.

"At the current point in time the method we are using does require you to carry around a wifi router so at this time i will not post instructions on how to do it."

This would still help me since I cancelled my cable modem service when I started using my Centro with USB Modem. Right now, I do not have high speed internet for my PC at home, but I do have a wireless router. I've been waiting for someone to come up with Pre solution. If no one did soon, I was going to sign up for cable modem service, again. If you don't want to post, could you email the instructions to me. I'd be glad to be a guinea pig.
Frank Hamilton
frankhamil@aol.com

Thanks Atlanta. Keep up the good work and keep us posted.

Has anyone here ever used the program called WMWifiRouter? It's an app for WM6 that allows you to tether via USB or reverse the wifi hardware and create a small hotspot. This application is the only reason I still have a Treo Pro and not a Pre.

I'll attach the app just incase any developers want to look and see how it works.

EDIT: The file is too large to attach, so if anyone wants to look at it, PM me and I'll email it to you.

hey frankhamil, ok ill get your IM when i get home and we can try it out.

Yea i seen that app somewhere but since PRE is based on linux will be much easier to AD-HOC it to your PC and just go. i have a copy somewhere around here but dont think it would be of any use.

Awesome. Hopefully we find a solution for this sooner rather than later. Tethering with a Rev A device is pretty nice.

Yes. I cannot wait. Atlanta, if you could, I'd love to try the tethering through wifi. n_n

I don't have a need for, I just love tinkering.

I have to say however, that turning the pre in to a wifi hotspot would be very cool. My wife and I could each use our laptops to connect to the net through the pre. That would rock. Wireless tethering for more than 1 user.

Thx Atlanta. If it works we'll have to change your name to "Hotlanta"

Atlanta, were you going to send me the instructions?

Thank you.

Frank Hamilton

great work! thanks for the info!

Guys,
Today I copied this partially from an engadget article that was posted in another thread. How does this affect tethering? Opinions are welcome.



"Not completely unexpected given the Linher thread.ux-based nature of the WebOS, Palm today has announced on their Palm Developer Network blog the launch of their open source portal website. They've acknowledged the benefits of the open source community and in accordance with license obligations have setup the website. To that end, Palm have formed a compliance program within the company. And while the specifics of the program will be revealed in a future document, Palm has said the following:

• Enforcing open source compliance policy, processes and license obligations;
• Establishing an internal team to oversee open source compliance;
• Using a range of commercial and Palm-developed tools to help with the compliance activities including a compliance project management tool, an open source software inventory tool, a code scanning tool, a linkage analysis tool; and
• Establishing open source internal training to continue to raise awareness and reinforce open source compliance within Palm.

But what does that mean for you? Well, Palm's open source website has more than just the licenses Palm is following, it also has the full source code of all the open source utilities the WebOS uses, including the source of any modifications Palm has made.
Still not quite sure how this may affect things? Really!? Well, fellow Palm enthusiast Jonathan Ezor, a Professor of Law and Technology at the Touro Law Center, had this to say:

Palm’s decision to use Linux and other open source software as the basis for its WebOS operating system has had immediate impact. Unlike the “jailbreaking” of Apple’s iPhone, which was an unauthorized workaround to install applications not approved by Apple, the Pre “hacking” is expressly authorized by the terms of the open source licenses (primarily the GNU General Public License) published by Palm, and members of the Pre hacking community have stated that Palm is aware of and communicating positively with them. To date, the only limitations Palm has tried to impose have been with regard to tethering the Pre (using it as a cellular modem for a standalone computer), which is prohibited by cellular carrier Sprint’s terms of use rather than any software license from Palm, and even with that, tethering has been achieved and publicized by the community. The Pre code analysis and modification efforts (many of which are collected at the Pre Dev Wiki) are not malicious hacking but permissible and collaborative hacking, and represent the best of what the open source movement is all about.

So there ya have it, the WebOS is quite the coder's playground. It may not be full open source like Android, but this certainly is nice and will help develop hacks quicker. It's an exciting time to be in the Palm world."