NewtonRaspberryPi

Newton OS can only handle WIFI with WEP encryption. Therefor I use an rapsberry pi thats routes my WPA2 WIFI to its ethernet port. You can then just hook an messagepad or emate via ethernet to the pi and have a kind of mobile solution.

Requirements:

first of all you need some hardware:

software:

Instructions:

I am not a professional, so there are certainly better instructions on the net. I also do not take over any liability for possible damages.

Step 1: install Linux

Download the Raspian Buster Lite image and flash it to the SD-Card.

There is a good tutorial on raspberrypi.org.

Step 2: prepare Linux

Hook the pi to a monitor / keyboard or simply just use ssh.

Setup wifi connection with sudo raspi-config.

Update your system with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade.

Copy the wifi-to-eth-route.sh script to /usr/local/bin.

Edit the script with sudo nano /usr/local/bin/wifi-to-eth-route.sh. Change the IP-adresses to your system. The script uses server=8.8.8.8 (Google) as DNS-Server. Just change it to your own DNS-Server (maybe 198.168.0.1) if you like. I did!

Make it executable with sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wifi-to-eth-route.sh.

Step 3: start routing

All you have to do is to execute the script bash /usr/local/bin/wifi-to-eth-route.sh and your WIFI connection will be routed the ethernet port.

If you like, add the script with sudo nano /etc/rc.local to the autostart of Linux.

Just add bash /usr/local/bin/wifi-to-eth-route.sh to the file and add in the line before exit 0.

Reboot and done.

Step 4: setup your messagepad

install the ethernetcard and setup the internet connection on your messagepad. Use DHCP as IP and everything will work fine.

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