Re: Using wifi via a smart phone/USB tethering
Hi Praveen,
I'm not sure about support for usbnet (networking with a phone via wired
USB). But for Wi-Fi tethering:
On 08/12/13 11:48, Praveen A wrote:
> Btw my wifi card is
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
That card should work with the iwn driver and doesn't need firmware:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwn
The examples on that page demonstrate connection to unsecured or WEP
networks using ifconfig. But if your access point (the phone) uses
WPA/WPA2 you will need to use wpa_supplicant.
Once `ifconfig` shows the link is UP/associatiated, `dhclient` should be
able to configure the interface IP.
We should probably document common use cases such as this with a new
GNU_kFreeBSD/Wireless page on the Debian Wiki. There we can explain the
manual procedure, whether it is known to work, and the status of any
helper utilities/GUIs.
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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