On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:00:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:19 on Tuesday 03 May 2011, Neil Bothwick 
> did opine thusly:
> 
> > On Tue, 3 May 2011 13:21:06 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > > There is a tethering option in the Nexus One settings but I can't
> > > figure out how to get my Gentoo laptop to use the tethered cell
> > > phone's internet connection.
> > 
> > I never tried tethering mine over USB, because the WiFi tethering is so
> > simple to use. You just turn it on and the phone appears as an
> > access point in Wicd (or any inferior network manager you may
> > masochistically prefer).
> 
> Hello Neil,
> 
> Had some bad experiences with NetworkManager then?
> 

The CLI and wpa_supplicant have yet to let me down.
Network manager and wicd were both incredibly frustrating 
and buggy, last I tried them (~ a year ago).

-- 
caveat utilitor


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