asus transformer and htc hero wifi tethering

Hi!

This is the story of the wifi tethering (sharing of the internet connection of a device through 802.11) between an ASUS EEE Pad Transformer and an HTC Hero. No other computers are required, 2 are more than enough. (every machine that is equipped with a processor capable of running general purpose instructions is a computer by definition) :P

The devices (computers, if you will):

• Hero:
• Rooted Android RCMix 2.2b (Linux 2.6.29.6) with Sense 2.1
• Transformer:
• Rooted Android 3.1 (Linux 2.6.36.3)

The procedure:

• Hero:
• Start the Wireless tether :P
• select an SSID (e.g. heroTether)
• Manage any other security settings you might need or want or whatever
  
• Transformer:
• Install ES File Explorer from the Android Market
  
• Run ES and in the settings enable the "Root Explorer" and the "Mount File System", so that you'll be able to explore the / and write files to it
• I think you'll have to reboot afterwards
  
• Go to this page, download the wpa_supplicant_xoom_wifi_adhoc.zip to the /sdcard/Download and extract it there (use the ES to extract the contents of the zip file)
  
• From the ES:
• create the /sdcard/backup directory
• go to the /system/bin and copy the wpa_supplicant to the /sdcard/backup
• then go to the /sdcard/Download and copy the wpa_supplicant to the /system/bin
• Install the ConnectBot from the Android Market
• Run the ConnectBot and connect using a local connection
• From the local terminal
• $ su
• # chmod 755 /system/bin/wpa_supplicant
• # reboot
• After rebooting, you'll see that the ad hoc network of the Hero can be seen as (*)heroTether. By connecting to it, you will be able to browse the net ;)
  

Ta ta,
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elias a.k.a. diluted