Using Pi with point-to-point connection

[s_erno]

Hey all,
just got my Pi and it's quite a blast. Got a Wi-Pi dongle to it, managed to configure it up and it's running nicely.

Now I'm a kind of a newbie to linux and been struggling with this but is it possible to create a point-to-point connection between the Pi's Wifi dongle and another hotspot so I can send data and such to the Pi?

Thanks.

[Davespice]

Ah, I guess you mean you want to access the Pi file system over the network?
Maybe this will help;
http://blogs.arcsoftwareconsultancy.com ... etworking/

[s_erno]

Thank you for the link it's quite informative.

My bad, forgot to mention the entire picture, that I'd like a tablet or smartphone maybe (preferably ios based) to be able to connect point-to-point to the Pi wirelessly . I managed to give the Pi a static ip address so far in the interfaces file but not sure what to do next for it to show up on the networks list of the tablet.

[ghans]

You need to turn into an WiFi access point.
Not all dongles are capable of AP Mode.

This distro comes preconfigured and should make things easier :
http://www.pi-point.co.uk/

ghans

[s_erno]

The Wi-Pi dongle can work as an AP I've checked that. .)
What I'm not sure about, as having an AP means that it connects to a wired network somehow right? So will the image in the link you gave still work without a wired connection?

[ghans]

This can be entirely self-contained , with no internet or other connection.

ghans

[SteveSpencer]

Well, an AP normally has some sort of wired connection. However, you can run a Pi as an AP (and a DHCP server and a DNS server if you want to) without anything being connected directly to it.

I have just that set up running, so the Pi can run Logitech media server and various things can connect to it (as slave players, in my case), but nothing actually connects to the internet connection in the rest of the building.

Steve

[s_erno]

Thanks guys, downloaded the 1 gig image, flashed it and it's now running. Shows up in the wifi hotspots lists and can connect to it, tho it seems I can't to send data to it yet somehow. I don't need to tweak anything with it right? (At least that's the feeling I had after reading the documentation).

[PiGraham]

Thanks guys, downloaded the 1 gig image, flashed it and it's now running. Shows up in the wifi hotspots lists and can connect to it, tho it seems I can't to send data to it yet somehow. I don't need to tweak anything with it right? (At least that's the feeling I had after reading the documentation).

You need a server on the Pi to connect to.
By default you should be able to ssh to it and get command-line control. You need a ssh client on your other device. It works just the same as over a wired Ethernet connection, just use the IP of the Pi's WiFi connection.

You should be able to ping it.
If you want FTP or HTTP web access you may need to install and configures servers for that. I don't know what that PiPoint distro comes with. It may have a web configuration page. If the Pi WiFi IP is 192.168.0.1 type http://192.168.0.1 into your web browser address bar and you may make contact.

[s_erno]

Fiddled around a bit with this and ssh and ping work both ways now, but I still can't send udp packets to the pi's ip address somehow, at least netstat doesn't show anything. I'm trying to send data on port 9750, is there a way to see if this is open on the pi somehow?