Linux (Ubuntu) Vs. WiFi Tether for Root Users

**Genjinaro** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 11:39 AM

Ok I've gotten this to work with the Windows 7 side of my Eee quite beautifully. However on Ubuntu 8.04 I can see the "G1 Tether" just fine, however it will just hang & fail to connect upon selection.

Whats wrong here, anyone claiming success with this combination?

Note: FYI I'm dual booting, so its the same laptop.

Thanks

REDFOCZ · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 11:53 AM

I tried it with the vista side .... ill try with lenux tonight after work

**thacounty** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Genjinaro

Ok I've gotten this to work with the Windows 7 side of my Eee quite beautifully. However on Ubuntu 8.04 I can see the "G1 Tether" just fine, however it will just hang & fail to connect upon selection.

Whats wrong here, anyone claiming success with this combination?

Note: FYI I'm dual booting, so its the same laptop.

Thanks

Didn't want to try Ubuntu 9.1? I only have that and haven't tried running wifi tether yet, but I will try later and see.

**Genjinaro** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by thacounty

Didn't want to try Ubuntu 9.1? I only have that and haven't tried running wifi tether yet, but I will try later and see.

I'm running a gOS 3.1 Gadgets, its based on Ubuntu 8.04. Wish they would update to a newer LTS version.

Its much like a Google OS.

http://www.thinkgos.com/gos/index.html

**thacounty** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Genjinaro

I'm running a gOS 3.1 Gadgets, its based on Ubuntu 8.04. Wish they would update to a newer LTS version.

Its much like a Google OS.

http://www.thinkgos.com/gos/index.html

O I c. That's cool

Edit: Just looked this over, will be trying this out on a different computer very soon!!

kennyidaho · #6 (**permalink**) 12-05-2009, 04:32 AM

I believe 8.10 and on have some nifty built in services for tethering working out of the box. I have not tried with the Hero yet. However since you are tethering via wifi I suppose it should not matter.

**Genjinaro** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-05-2009, 10:12 PM

Wirelessly posted (HTC Hero: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-us; A6277 Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1)

Yeah, unfortunately my Ubuntu discriminates against the signal. I wish I could wire tether.

**bradart** · #8 (**permalink**) 12-05-2009, 11:10 PM

I'm thinking that you're version of linux doesn't support ad-hoc wifi connections. I guess you're stuck tweeting from the phone itself

**Genjinaro** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-06-2009, 01:02 AM

Wirelessly posted (HTC Hero: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-us; A6277 Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1)

LOL, if some can confirm a later version of it working, I'm game.

**bradart** · #10 (**permalink**) 12-06-2009, 01:05 AM

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"