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Re: Tethering and Linux



I have been 'tethering' successfully again with the new Ubuntu to a Verizon MiFi card. The previous verson was screwing up on the wpa and would not auth half of the time.

-charlie

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm glad to see how far support for tethering has come in Linux. Today, I activated a plan that included tethering support at Sprint. It used to just work (tethering), but lately they had started blocking it completely. I had it working on my Palm and Windows mobile phones, but my LG Lotus only Anyhoo, I removed my wireless card and plugged in the phone (by USB) under Ubuntu 9.10. It detected the broadband phone, and asked me 2 questions - Country (USA), Provider (Sprint). Afterword, I just clicked the network-manager applet and selected the Sprint connection and "boom" I was on. That's certainly easier than in the past, where I had to edit some PPP config files and manually start and stop the connection. 
Funny thing, this laptop also dual-boots with WIndows 7 - some of my classes require Office 2007, plus I do a little Visual Studio stuff. It was actually harder to setup the connection in Windows. I had to get the driver for the "phone-as-modem", and then add a dialup connection. Not too hard, but I just think it is great how easy some of these things have become under Linux. 

Why, I remember Slackware and 13 floppies and... whoops, sorry, I'm old.

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