Maemo PirateBox

This manual explains how to turn your N810 or N900 Maemo device into a PirateBox.

In case you don't know what is piratebox go to David Darts page or here. Also, there are script called mkPirateBox for hardware router devices.

Install web server
Basicly what we need is a web server. apt-get install lighttpd

I also edited the server's config file

vi /etc/lighttpd.conf and changed document root directory to /media/mmc1/www server.document-root = "/media/mmc1/www/"

put your website data there and start http server if it's not started.

/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Start access point
So, dnsmasq is available in maemo out of the box. It is a dns and dhcp server. As a root, start the following script:

set -x IFACE=wlan0 ESSID=welcome_to_norayrs_mobile_server #set this yourself MYTEMPHOSTNAME=maemo ADDR=23.23.23.23 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ADDR_MIN=23.23.23.0 ADDR_MAX=23.23.23.255 INT=1
 * 1) !/bin/bash

ifconfig $IFACE down sleep $INT iwconfig $IFACE mode ad-hoc sleep $INT ifconfig $IFACE up sleep $INT iwconfig $IFACE essid $ESSID ifconfig $IFACE $ADDR netmask $NETMASK up

/usr/sbin/dnsmasq -i $IFACE -a $ADDR -I lo -z -d \ -x /var/run/dnsmasq.$IFACE.pid \ --dhcp-range=$ADDR_MIN,$ADDR_MAX,12h \ --address=/#/$ADDR \ --no-resolv

This is it, now anybody can connect to your access point and your personal PirateBox on your n900 or n810 running under maemo