my first inclination on this is to start looking at bluetooth.<br><br>I am able to use my Treo (windows mobile) to connect my laptop to the net. i don't know if you can create a totally mobile network through a single device without significant programming. you're probably going to need to pair a laptop with your bluetooth device and then use the laptop as your dhcp server/router. I'm sure you could do this over wifi to reduce equipment needs.<br>
<br>what a wonderful world a bluetooth-enabled linksys wireless router would be (and battery-operated while i'm dreaming).<br><br>verizon looks pretty good for LA, but there are some holes on the coast.<br><a href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/CoverageLocatorController">http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/CoverageLocatorController</a><br>
<br>hth,<br>bill<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Mark Galassi <<a href="mailto:mark@galassi.org">mark@galassi.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Amigos, this is something I've never done, but I will need to do for<br>
some experiments we have.<br>
<br>
I need to have a gadget (maybe a mobile phone?) which offers an ethernet<br>
port, preferably with a dhcp server and local subnet, but it's OK if<br>
it's a single address.<br>
<br>
In other words, the same kind of router that you typically get with a<br>
DSL modem at home, but small and mobile.<br>
<br>
It should allow incoming ssh, possibly via a "port forwarding" setup on<br>
the router's <a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank">192.168.0.1</a> address.<br>
<br>
I have heard of people with mobile phones that can surf the web, but<br>
they usually are self-contained and don't have twisted pair ports.<br>
<br>
I have heard of pcmcia cards for laptops that are cellular modems. This<br>
might be the kind of thing, because then the laptop might be configured<br>
to offer the ethernet to other machines, but it would be bulky. (I also<br>
wonder if nowadays the pcmcia cards are becoming USB cards; this would<br>
help since the equipment we are sending out has rack-mounted computers,<br>
not laptops, hence no pcmcia.)<br>
<br>
Are there other gadgets that I have not heard about? Maybe this biggish<br>
cell-phone with an ethernet port really exists?<br>
<br>
And I'll buy a beer if your answer includes information on whether these<br>
mobile phone providers have good coverage of very rural "south coast of<br>
Louisiana" and mississippi delta swamplands.<br>
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