Connecting Kindle Fire to Ad-Hoc network

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Hi,

I have been trying to connect my Fire to my tethered connection (I have a Motorola Backflip with CM7).

I tried setting up infrastructure mode tethering but it seems that is unsupported by my phone (http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/3...ering-problem/)

Now I'm trying the other way around, enabling connections to an ad-hoc network from the Fire. I tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1353322

But it didn't do anything.

Any ideas of an alternate method? or if this will be even possible (is the hardware capable and it's only a matter of time before someone finds a work-around?).

Thanks!

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)

http://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.

Bzeek(supports XP & Win7)
http://www.bzeek.com/static/index.html
download:
http://www.bzeek.com/static/bzeekPlu...ugin-setup.exe

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)
http://dl.dbank.com/c04pwaal9s

BzeekTurnOff.bat(18B)
http://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.
http://bbs.mydoo.cn/thread-54577-1-1.html

Succeeded to connect to any Ad-hoc

The method can be shorten as below
1. Go find ZT-180 Adhoc Switcher.apk , just google it, there will be several links.
2. Install the apk on a rooted KF.
3. Open it, tap settings before switch to Ad-hoc Mode
4. Input the SSID of the Ad-hoc WIFI you want to connect to. Also fill WEP (if needed) area.
5. Switch to Ad-hoc Mode. Wait a minute and you'll find your KF is connected to the Ad-hoc specified above.

There will be a "x" on KF's WIFI mark, but it doesn't matter, the ad-hoc link is working.

I tested connecting to my PSP, iPhone, Laptop(win7, ad-hoc wizard provided by OS), so I think it support all kind of Ad-hoc. Did a ping test to iPhone and Laptop for confirming. Ping works, so I think it should work fine.

P.S.
Seems it has nothing to do with Bzeek. Just use any ad-hoc.

Nice. Thanks for sharing this!

Does it have to be rooted? Has anyone tried unrooted?

Thanks PenDave.. Been working on this for 2 days, I had zt-180 on my phone (did'nt work).. Tried your methode and SUCCESSSSSS,,,

Nice tip, works great!

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Finally able to connect to my KF to my OG Droid running Wifi Tether. All this time I thought it was a kernel problem.

Only problem I'm having is reconnecting to my KF to regular WiFi. I turned on "Infrastructure Mode", tried rebooting. Seems radio is stuck in "Ad-Hoc mode" now. Any ideas?

EDIT: After spending hours with "adb shell" to route out the problem, a "router reboot" fixed my connectivity problem. Nothing like that fresh noob feeling!

Can't get a connection between my HTC Inspire HD and my KF. Apparently ZT180 only supported WEP, so I tried turning security off entirely and still no connection. The KF wireless dialog says 'attempting' over and over but no dice. Any thoughts? Do I have to do something to my phone too?

You may have to reinstall the binary config in wifi tether on your phone, available in the menu option on the app main screen.

Has anyone found a way to connect the Kindle Fire to ad-hoc mode WITHOUT having to root?