Connecting to a smartphone teathered WiFi HotSpot

[wilcal]

Do share with me anyones success, or not, connecting to a smartphone
that is equiped with a WiFi teathering feature function. Over the
last couple days I've attempted to connect my laptop ( M3RC ) with a
couple such a devices. It appears that I was able to connect to the
smartphone but that smartphone was unable to connect out on to the
Internet. I'm not sure if the problem is with M3RC or if the problem
is with the smartphone. The carrier is T-Mobile.

My M3RC laptop easily connects with my WiFi in my home, any WiFi
HotSpot at Starbucks and McDonalds and the local Library so I
don't think there's a problem is there. I have also been successful
in connecting the M3RC laptop to a Verizon Mobile HotSpot.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/mobile-hotspot

Thanks

[spiky001]

Hi

I cant get my samsung galaxy to connect via usb either, but if i set up the phone as a hotspot wirelessly I can connect,
I had no trouble when using Centos,Fedora,Debain,Ubuntu FYI

[alf]

if i set up the phone as a hotspot wirelessly I can connect

Same here with my Huawei G615 and Mageia3.
Activated WiFi-Hotspot at the phone, run networkcenter on my Laptop, AndroidAP is shown, fill in the WPA-Key and press connect, that's all i've to do. (wrote this connected via the phone )

[spiky001]

Hi

I have just managed to get mine working via usb
As root

Code: Select all

ifconfig

that should show interface as usb0.
I then went into MCC network and internet select New network Connection. Select wired then select usb0
I went through all the manual settings changed DNS server 8.8.8.8 still no joy
I then went back set it all back to original now it connects via usb, I noticed that in network manager it shows the android connection unmanaged now??
I will play some more see if I can figure it out

[wilcal]

Sounds like an imperfect art.

[sander85]

I then went back set it all back to original now it connects via usb, I noticed that in network manager it shows the android connection unmanaged now??
I will play some more see if I can figure it out

When you configured it with MCC you probably didn't tick the checkbox that says it should be handled by NM.
When you first configured it, you probably did it with NM and all was fine but shorewall blocked your traffic. It's a known problem but I'm not sure if it will be fixed for Mageia 3 or not :/