Re: connecting to a phone running android-wifi-tether

[Roy Marples <roy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 19/01/2010 16:27, David Brownlee wrote:
> I have android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com on my HTC phone to provide a
> wifi hotspot for my laptop and thought I'd give it a spin with NetBSD.
> I'm using the following scrip which works fine, but I can't seem to
> get it working under wpa_supplicant. Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant stop
> /etc/rc.d/dhcpcd stop
> ifconfig ath0 ssid absTether mediaopt adhoc
> while ! ifconfig ath0 | grep 'status: active' ; do
>      echo -n .
>      sleep 1
> done
> /etc/rc.d/dhcpcd start

dhcpcd handles link management fine, so no need to monitor ifconfig 
output and start it :)

Thanks

Roy