Re: cellphone tether works from N810 but not laptop
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Hi Andrew, Fedora 9 in awfully old... Try boot off live CD with latest Fedora (17). If Fedora 17 behaves, it may be lime to upgrade system on laptop ;-) Thanks for the reply - which I'm ashamed to say I've only just got around to reading after getting back from vacation and catching up on work email first. Yes I know FC9 is old - I often follow the if it ain't broke don't fix it philosophy, and the laptop is not my primary computer and still runs Firefox and gphoto2 and mplayer just fine ... I may try your suggestion of a LiveCD - though I suspect around town I'd have trouble finding a weak enough signal. The problem appeared when I was sailing on my boat miles from any cell towers. I had the same kind of message (at least, tethering didn't work) in Nokia's PC Suite software on Vista on the same laptop. So it's not just Fedora 9 with the problem. I was wondering if anyone had any insight into differences between the N810 and x86 Linux networking software that might explain what I was seeing Andrew Good luck! Valeri On Wed, August 22, 2012 5:47 pm, Andrew Daviel wrote: I have a Nokia E71 phone, an N810 and a laptop running Fedora Core 9. The laptop has Bluetooth, also a USB cable to connect to the E71. If I have a good signal, I can use the packet data interface on the phone itself, or on the N810 via Bluetooth to get an Internet connection. But the laptop does not always work. Close to a tower, if I use the cable and select 'PC Suite' mode on the phone, the Gnome network app shows a wireless connection and syslog talks about ttyACM0 and activating my connection. Further away from a tower, the connection does not show in the app and syslog says 'ignoring due to lack of mobile broadband capability' I had naively thought the two devices used the same capability on the phone. Does anyone know what the problem is, and if it's possible to get a connection on the laptop at greater distance ? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
cellphone tether works from N810 but not laptop
I have a Nokia E71 phone, an N810 and a laptop running Fedora Core 9. The laptop has Bluetooth, also a USB cable to connect to the E71. If I have a good signal, I can use the packet data interface on the phone itself, or on the N810 via Bluetooth to get an Internet connection. But the laptop does not always work. Close to a tower, if I use the cable and select 'PC Suite' mode on the phone, the Gnome network app shows a wireless connection and syslog talks about ttyACM0 and activating my connection. Further away from a tower, the connection does not show in the app and syslog says 'ignoring due to lack of mobile broadband capability' I had naively thought the two devices used the same capability on the phone. Does anyone know what the problem is, and if it's possible to get a connection on the laptop at greater distance ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: cellphone tether works from N810 but not laptop
Hi Andrew, Fedora 9 in awfully old... Try boot off live CD with latest Fedora (17). If Fedora 17 behaves, it may be lime to upgrade system on laptop ;-) Good luck! Valeri On Wed, August 22, 2012 5:47 pm, Andrew Daviel wrote: I have a Nokia E71 phone, an N810 and a laptop running Fedora Core 9. The laptop has Bluetooth, also a USB cable to connect to the E71. If I have a good signal, I can use the packet data interface on the phone itself, or on the N810 via Bluetooth to get an Internet connection. But the laptop does not always work. Close to a tower, if I use the cable and select 'PC Suite' mode on the phone, the Gnome network app shows a wireless connection and syslog talks about ttyACM0 and activating my connection. Further away from a tower, the connection does not show in the app and syslog says 'ignoring due to lack of mobile broadband capability' I had naively thought the two devices used the same capability on the phone. Does anyone know what the problem is, and if it's possible to get a connection on the laptop at greater distance ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users