Hello, Before travelling to a place with only the mobile phone network as an option to connect to the internet, I figured out how to do this through my Fairphone by “tethering” it to my notebook. It works for me within Linux and windows 7 and I thought it might be useful information to share. I ha…

Setting up tethering on a Linux PC can of course be much easer, depending on your configuration. I’m running an old slackware-based distro (Linux kernel 2.6.32) and Wicd. I haven’t had to do anything except opening the Wicd GUI and set wired connection to usb0 (instead of default eth0), and it conn…

And for Mac users: http://www.mactip.net/usb-tethering-a-mac-to-an-android-phone/ :smiley:

Is there any tutorial for Win XP (I run it in a VM)? I miss the RNDIS driver That link is not working this one either

Thanks, @agabrown , for sharing. [image] kgha: I guess it can be done in a similar way in NetworkManager if you have it installed. Yes, with NetworkManager (at least under Ubuntu) you don’t have to do anything. As soon as you turn on tethering on the phone and have a USB connection, your phon…

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