USB Tethering under linux - Page 2

**MrObvious** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 08:48 PM

I used this when I ran Ubuntu. It works great.

jerryyyyy · #2 (**permalink**) 09-27-2008, 10:27 AM

Nothing for Fedora or SuSe?

**MrObvious** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-27-2008, 02:17 PM

This should work on both.

AndrewZorn · #4 (**permalink**) 09-27-2008, 04:15 PM

WOW. I'm going to try that first suggestion later. I have had SO MUCH TROUBLE with tethering on my Linux laptop. Bluetooth doesn't work and often crashes the laptop. So I went to WMWifiRouter, which is great for everyone that uses Windows... but my wireless drivers have trouble with Ad-Hoc. Eventually wrote a script to 'fix' this by switching to ad-hoc mode in a different driver... among other things.

chainfire · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2008, 08:38 PM

Care to share that script?

thenuge · #6 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 12:44 AM

if you just need to sync your contacts with evolution, try this

http://cristiantm.wordpress.com/2007...ut-activesync/

it uses a free online exchange server to sync both your phone and pc.

AndrewZorn · #7 (**permalink**) 10-23-2008, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chainfire

Care to share that script?

Sorry

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 Beta... after using the Broadcom STA driver, it seems that this version can actually deal with ad-hoc mode and automatically switch. Success rate is very low, though.

Here is what I had/have, turned it into an alias. Do "gedit .bashrc" and add this to your list of aliases:

To go INTO ad-hoc mode and connect to WMWifiRouter:

Code:

alias wmwifi='sudo ifconfig eth1 down;sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop;sudo iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid "WMWifiRouter";sudo ifconfig eth1 up;sudo dhclient eth1'

To go back to normal/managed mode:

Code:

alias managed='sudo ifconfig eth1 down;sudo iwconfig eth1 mode managed;sudo ifconfig eth1 up;sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager start;sudo iwlist eth1 scanning'

You'll probably have to change it around a bit. This is for the Broadcom drivers. eth1 is my wireless adapter.

Since 8.10, I get an error with stopping Network Manager; I don't know what the equivalent is here (I've been using 8.10 for literally 10mins). The reason I put that in to start with is because NetworkManager would sometimes try to interfere. You don't need it if you are supplying all the info to connect to WMWifiRouter.

**MrObvious** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-14-2008, 02:08 PM

Do you have the compiling tools installed john? I think it's sudo apt-get install automake and you should have what you want. But frankly you could get better help if you pop on IRC and get on Freenode channel #ubuntu and get help there.

namopereht · #9 (**permalink**) 10-15-2008, 05:48 PM

EtherealRemnant:

You rock! Been banging my head into the wall trying to get ics working under Kubuntu. Settled on wmodem and was working until I swapped my apache to my titan. Maybe the rom I flashed or maybe the titan, but wmodem doesnt work and the usb-serial driver just returns "CLIENT" when trying to initialize the modem. For those of you that need to download this in Windows because you have no connectivity under linux, google "tortoiseSVN", a windows explorer addon that lets you use subversion under windows. Checked out the SVN, copied to my /home partition, and then did just like it says. I rebooted just to be safe, but added the modules and it just works.

John1234:

You need the developer tools installed. Should be at least make, gcc, libc6-dev, g++, libstdc-dev, and build-essentials (from a kubuntu install, but should be the same).

namopereht

**x10guy** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-15-2008, 06:42 PM

Anyone able to get tethering working using an Acer Aspire One Linux mini-notebook?

I believe it uses Linpus Lite Linux... there really isn't any guides to get it working on Linpus