Readers, Having read the web page 'android tethering', I write praying that a novice user is _not_ expected to have root access to a mobile phone, openvpn, android sdk etc. etc.! Currently using an old RPM distribution on another portable computer, internet access via an android mobile phone and usb cable is achieved by simple insertion of the usb cable into the computer! Mobile tethering is activated on the phone and "voila!", a dialogue window appears confirming internet access. Could someone please indicate: is this possible in arch linux? Anyway, on the other old(er) computer running arch linux, wicd was installed, but fails to recognise mobile phone internet access either via usb connection (tether mode) or wireless hotspot activation. Below is the wicd error log. --------------------------- wicd initializing... --------------------------- wicd is version 1.7.2.4 768 did not find backend in configuration, setting default external setting backend to external trying to load backend external successfully loaded backend external trying to load backend external successfully loaded backend external Automatically detected wireless interface wl... did not find wireless_interface in configuration, setting default wl... setting wireless interface wl... automatically detected wired interface eth0 did not find wired_interface in configuration, setting default eth0 setting wired interface eth0 did not find wpa_driver in configuration, setting default wext setting wpa driver wext did not find always_show_wired_interface in configuration, setting default False did not find use_global_dns in configuration, setting default False setting use global dns to False did not find global_dns_1 in configuration, setting default None did not find global_dns_2 in configuration, setting default None did not find global_dns_3 in configuration, setting default None did not find global_dns_dom in configuration, setting default None did not find global_search_dom in configuration, setting default None setting global dns global dns servers are None None None domain is None search domain is None did not find auto_reconnect in configuration, setting default True setting automatically reconnect when connection drops True did not find debug_mode in configuration, setting default False did not find wired_connect_mode in configuration, setting default 1 did not find signal_display_type in configuration, setting default 0 did not find should_verify_ap in configuration, setting default 1 did not find dhcp_client in configuration, setting default 0 Setting dhcp client to 0 did not find link_detect_tool in configuration, setting default 0 did not find flush_tool in configuration, setting default 0 did not find sudo_app in configuration, setting default 0 did not find prefer_wired in configuration, setting default False did not find show_never_connect in configuration, setting default True Wireless configuration file not found, creating... Wired configuration file not found, creating a default... Creating wired profile for wired-default dhclient.conf.template not found, copying... chmoding configuration files 0600... chowning configuration files root:root... Using wireless interface...wl... Using wired interface...eth0 Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Creating ad-hoc network Stopping dhcp client and wpa_supplicant Putting wireless interface down Setting mode, channel, and essid Putting interface up Setting IP address Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Daemon going down, killing wicd-monitor... Removing PID file... Shutting down... Exception KeyError: KeyError(-1221368064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyo'> ignored --------------------------- wicd initializing... --------------------------- wicd is version 1.7.2.4 768 setting backend to external trying to load backend external successfully loaded backend external trying to load backend external successfully loaded backend external Automatically detected wireless interface wl... setting wireless interface wl... automatically detected wired interface eth1 setting wired interface eth0 setting wpa driver wext setting use global dns to False setting global dns global dns servers are None None None domain is None search domain is None setting automatically reconnect when connection drops True Setting dhcp client to 0 Wireless configuration file found... Wired configuration file found... chmoding configuration files 0600... chowning configuration files root:root... Using wireless interface...wl... Using wired interface...eth0 Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect Autoconnecting... No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect rfkill: blocking wifi rfkill: blocking wlan rfkill: blocking wimax rfkill: blocking wwan rfkill: unblocking wifi rfkill: unblocking wlan rfkill: unblocking wimax rfkill: unblocking wwan Setting hidden essidwifinetworkname Setting hidden essidwifinetworkname Setting hidden essidwifinetworkname Daemon going down, killing wicd-monitor... Removing PID file... Shutting down... Exception KeyError: KeyError(-1220552960,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyo'> ignored The 'man' page for wicd states that a man page exists for '/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf'. What is the command to access this page please? conf file shown below GNU nano 2.2.6 File: /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf [Settings] backend = external wireless_interface = wl... wired_interface = eth0 wpa_driver = wext always_show_wired_interface = False use_global_dns = False global_dns_1 = None global_dns_2 = None global_dns_3 = None global_dns_dom = None global_search_dom = None auto_reconnect = True debug_mode = 0 wired_connect_mode = 2 signal_display_type = 1 should_verify_ap = 1 dhcp_client = 0 link_detect_tool = 0 flush_tool = 0 sudo_app = 0 prefer_wired = False show_never_connect = False The wireless configuration file '/etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf' exists, but is empty. Could some one please suggest recommended web pages to start configuration of appropriate files to achieve mobile phone internet access?