On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Andrew Errington <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you tether to a cellphone? Set it up as a WiFi AP then connect to > it from the PC. No drivers required. > > Just curious, since I have just done exactly that, but not in NZ, so I > wonder what the situation is like there.
Yeah you can tether in NZ - android certainly does it. I regularly do it in court if I am using my laptop. However it is another device to keep charged, if you phone goes flat you're buggered. I confirm too that the white 2 degrees modems work in linux, the black ones don't seem to, although the situation may have changed since I tried them. However I hate dongles hanging out my laptop USB ports! > > A > > On 17/04/2014, yuri <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 17 April 2014 13:39, chris wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> Has any one got any experience to share on a 2 degrees usb modem using >>> xubuntu 13.10? >>> I am having to move around the country for the next few years, so will be >>> with out broadband >>> Regards Chris Waipara >> >> IME the older white one works, the newer, faster black one doesn't. >> They're both Huawei, I think. >> You need to have the package "usb-modeswitch" installed. Most distros have >> it. >> >> For $99 you can get a 3G Wifi hotspot device from the 2 degrees kiosk >> in most malls. It's the size of a small cellphone and it's normal >> WEP/WPA/WPA2 wifi that works with any Wifi capable device, including >> Linux. It has a web interface for doing 2 degrees top-ups. It's also >> Huawei. >> >> YMMV >> Yuri >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
