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 ?
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