USB Tethering under linux

[MrObvious]

This should work on both.

[AndrewZorn]

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]

Care to share that script?

[thenuge]

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]

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:

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:

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.