[Q] Kindle won't pickup adhoc wireless my phone will??

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So I bought a cheap USB wireless adapter for my PC - D-Link DWA-125.

I set up an ad-hoc wireless connect, my SGS phone sees it but the Kindle won't.

Any ideas?

PS I'm in Australia if that makes any difference.

default android cannot connect to Ad-hoc.
if you want doing this, your fire must be rooted then you copy one file to your fire.
you can search in this forum for more infomation, I can remember where the file is.

If you are running Windows 7 use Connectify it creates a wireless hot spot and the lite version is free. connectify.me

It was advertised that the fire wouldn't support ad-hoc networks from the announcement. Conectify on win7 works pretty well though.

Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium

Well, I found a wpa_supplicant file on the forums here and copied to system/bin, but it doesn't work. Anyone have a working wpa_supplicant, or know what files I need to edit? This sounds like the most elegant solution, if not I'll try connectify as suggested.

After fsuking around for hours, still not working, and am too tired to do more.

I tried method from http://www.chinadigitalcomm.com/andr...ifi-t1413.html namely

Turn off wireless and then you need to edit two files, either text editor or ADB

adb pull /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini tiwlan.ini
adb push tiwlan.ini /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini

adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa_supplicant.conf
adb push wpa_supplicant.conf /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf


for tiwlan.ini - look for the WiFiAdhoc line and change, add the other two lines after it
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WiFiAdhoc = 1
dot11DesiredSSID = InsertyourSSIDhere
dot11DesiredBSSType = 0

for wpa_supplicant.conf - add the ap_scan=2 line and your adhoc network
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ctrl_interface=DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wifi
update_config=1
ap_scan=2

network={
ssid="InsertyourSSIDhere"
key_mgmt=NONE
mode=1
wep_key0=1234567890
priority=20
}

- Reboot and turn on wireless - can take a while to connect
- this works on the Android 2.1 firmware, have not yet fully tested on 2.2.
- I think the priority line is important, make it bigger than other networks in wpa_supplicant.conf so it tries to connect to AdHoc first.
- When you add new networks through the Android settings menu, the ap_scan=2 line disappears so you have to re-add it

Have yet to try method from http://www.olsr.org/?q=olsr_on_android

Please, anyone that wants ad-hoc wifi on the Fire work on this while I am sleeping

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I'll have another go at this tonight...

Any luck on getting KF to see ad hoc?

Originally Posted by mclad

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I'll have another go at this tonight...

Any luck? I've been playing with my HTC HERO all day trying different roms etc.

There's no developer published wpa_supplicant replacement for Kindle Fire's system/bin/wpa_supplicant till now.

So I find ZT-180 Adhoc Switcher.apk is so well to switch Kindle Fire to support Kindle Fire
download link:
ZT-180 Adhoc Switcher.apk(174.35K)

dl.dbank.com/c0qlpiozc1

A lot of ways to setuo WiFi hotspot with laptop, but Bzeek is the most useful one and it supports both Win XP and Vista.

I met a problem with Bzeek as well as lots of guys met that after restart the Windows, Bzeek is alway Off instead of On, even you can't turn it On.

So I check google and found that

Personal Hotspot Status
Your Personal Hotspot is Off
Some of the Bzeek settings are not yet in effect. Please restart your computer for the Bzeek settings to take effect. If the problem persists, please contact Bzeek for support.

Admin reply:

Maybe the Bzeek service is not running for some reason on your machine.
If it is not solved after boot you can run services.msc and make sure the bzeek service is running.

It's a BUG for Bzeek due to their lack of maintance?

So manually if you like, you should go to
Start > Run > services.msc
Open Windows System Services
Get Bzeek Service and make it START

For easy use I build .bat file to TURN ON or TURN OFF Bzeek Free WiFi service effeciently. You can download them here
BzeekTurnOn.bat(18B)

dl.dbank.com/c04pwaal9s

BzeekTurnOff.bat(18B)

dl.dbank.com/c04pwaal9s

included scripts are simple so you can build your own:

net start bzeeksvc

for START

net stop bzeeksvc

for STOP

Install ZT-180 Adhoc Switcher.apk

Before running it you'd better ROOT your Kindle Fire for higher user ability.

Run ZT-180 Adhoc Switcher

You should see Switch to Infrastructure mode / Switch to Ad-hoc mode button.

Click Switch to Infrastructure mode and it turns to Switch to Ad-hoc mode then you can click Settings button to set SSID and WEP password if possible.

I put into Bzeek Free WiFi as SSID as I'm using Bzeek and WEP is not selected for Bzeek. If you use other name and with WEP, just do your way.

Now the button display Switch to Ad-hoc mode, just click it and turn it to
Ad-hoc Mode, click Enable WiFi button and it will connect to Bzeek Free WiFi rapidly

Then it will ask you put in your Bzeek username and password, finally you can share the internet with WiFi Ad-Hoc from your laptop happily!

I post this method to a Chinese forum and you can check screenshot images and download links there better.

bbs.mydoo.cn/thread-54577-1-1.html