On 23 July 2012 12:29, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jul 21, 2012 4:02 PM, "Jan Stary" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Is there any support present or planned for Ethernet over USB? >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_USB#Treat_USB_as_an_Ethernet_network >> > >> > The motivation is to conenct my smartphone via USB to my workstation, >> > thus having the phone connected to the net without either a wifi AP >> > or using the operator's network data tarif. > > > On Jul 21 16:32:31, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: >> Yes see urndis > > My phone is Samsung GT-I5510, which is a Samsung Galaxy, > which urndis(4) mentiones as supprted. Does someone use it > as a urndis device? Should it report as a urndis device > once connected via USB? I only get > > umass1 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "SAMSUNG Electronics Co., > Ltd. Samsung Android USB Device" rev 2.00/4.00 addr 3 > umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 > sd3 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: <SAMSUNG, GT-I5510 Card, 0000> SCSI2 0/direct > removable serial.04e8681d551065d6a9ce > > i.e. it only exposes itself as a umass device. > > > On Jul 23 10:00:53, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> I think you mean that the phone uses the computer's internet connection, >> is that correct? > > Yes. >
I thought you wanted the other way around, to connect your laptop through your phone, that is what urndis is for, you need to go to settings->mobile & networks->usb tethering, than the laptop will see a urndis(4) interface, but this is not you want, this is for connecting the laptop through the phone. >> I haven't heard of any such driver planned, but I wonder if there are >> any devices other than the ipaq which actually support this, it seems like >> it would be a bit of a niche market...

