[ale] Droid updates to a happy setup

[Jim Kinney]

Excellent!

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