On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Richard
Hi, I have an HP omnibook X3 with opensuse 11.0 running. Now I want to use a smartphone as wireless modem. I have connected a t-mobile MDA ("HTC-USB-modem") via USB with my notebook. I tried to configure it as a modem with Yast. But... does the kernel (it is 2.6... I think) contain the needed module? And, if yes, which port do have I to use? Unfortunately there are no /dev/USB-ports, but /dev/ACM0 (or similar, I don't have the computer here). Thanks for answering, Richard
Hi, I am guessing you are referring to a model of the HTC windows mobile phones. I haven't personally been able to make the phone work as a modem directly. The only way I found is to use it as a modem through bluetooth. Pair your laptop with the phone then on Windows Mobile run the Internet Sharing application and connect to your internet connection. Finally connect your laptop to the phone via: su -c "pand -Q -n && dhclient bnep0" This will find all bluetooth devices and connect to the one with Bluetooth PAN enabled (yours). Alternatively to avoid searching all BT devices in range specify the bluetooth address of your phone directly via: su -c "pand -Q -n -c "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" && dhclient bnep0" I have this saved in a .sh script in my bin directory for convenience. Also maybe NetworkManager in opensuse 11.1 will support Bluetooth networking... who knows. -- Kind Regards, Ivan N. Zlatev -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-mobile+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-mobile+help@opensuse.org