"Have you tried the wifi hotspot approach?"
Yes, that works flawlessly. However in crowded public areas (I use my phone for broadband connection for my laptop), it's desirable for security reasons to run usb tethering.
on the phone, ifconfig rndis0 shows Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx (etc.). inet addr: 10.42.1.1 Bcast: 10.42.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: xx:: (etc) ... Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX and TX packets: 0 errors: 0 --> (everything =0) RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) So no Transmitting or receiving anything (via tethering/ethernet). -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
