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:

#!/bin/bash
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

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