<p>Excellent! </p>
<p>On Aug 24, 2010 12:11 AM, "Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 23:14 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>>> My droid did the 2.2 update a few days ago. Poking around, I noticed<br>
>> the new addition to networks and wireless - tethering!<br>>> <br>>> Let's make this short : It "Just Works". Plug in the USB cable, don't<br>>> choose mount drive, select menu, wireless, tethering on then on the<br>
>> Fedora 13 side simply choose the new USB0 connection from<br>>> NetworkManager. Wrote this email over it. <br>>> <br>>> happyhappyjoyjoy!<br>>> <br>>> hooking this up to the netbook next so small portable connect nearly<br>
>> anywhere.<br>>> <br>>> Wonder what _new_ data limits Verizon will come up with? <br>> <br>> Hehehe, modded versions of Android (such as those released by Cyanogen<br>> for the HTC phones) have had that tether ability for a while... it is<br>
> really nice when it works. At least for the last several releases, it<br>> too has "Just Worked" with just about everything---it presents to the<br>> operating system as an RNDIS device, and I think everything supports<br>
> that.<br>> <br>> A few weeks ago I had to go to the office and I found that there was a<br>> rather odd situation:<br>> <br>> * The DSL was not working.<br>> * The T1 equipment's Ethernet wire (a crossover cable) was _MISSING_<br>
> and therefore I could not use it.<br>> * I had to build a crossover cable (which took me a while... I have<br>> probably made two whole Ethernet cables in my life). Not<br>> unreasonable, except I just did this a few days prior.<br>
> * Once I made the crossover cable and got ready to failover to the<br>> T1, I had another problem: the ISP somehow dropped its<br>> configuration. Oops. Hour later, it's running.<br>> <br>> Once I had noticed that the T1's crossover cable was missing, I decided<br>
> that I would try something. BTW, this was for a network of about thirty<br>> people... this worked surprisingly well.<br>> <br>> I took my phone and plugged it into one of the firewall's USB ports and<br>
> quickly added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file and brought it up.<br>> It worked like a *dream*. Well, aside from the fact that the whole<br>> network was now double-NAT'd and I couldn't run any of the Internet<br>
> facing services provided by this network, well, on the Internet. At<br>> least they could still work for the 90 minutes it took to get the T1<br>> properly up and running... *grumble*.<br>> <br>> Long story short: tethering on these phones is bloody useful and<br>
> absolutely wonderful, and quite possibly could be a nearly literal<br>> lifesaver.<br>> <br>> --- Mike<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
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