Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes: > Setting up a laptop workstation for a friend, who uses internet via an > sgs2 (samsung galaxy sII). Never have I tethered before. > > I've installed wheezy+xfce on a thinkpad r500. > > Been searching a bit, eg "network tethering site:debian.org" and others. > > apt-cache search tether gives > entangle - Tethered Camera Control & Capture > ipheth-utils - USB tethering driver support utilities for the iPhone > (I'm on sid) > > Also apt-cache search'ed for samsung. > > Have not yet attached the phone (via usb), just doing some research, > and seeking some feedback and/ or recommendations (eg "just install > network-manager" or some such). I have a Galaxy Note II, and when I connect it to my laptop and tick the USB tethering checkbox, I get a new interface named 'usb0'. Then I ifup usb0 and I'm done. It should work with network-manager/wicd too, though I haven't tested this. -- Marius Gavrilescu
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