[arch-general] mobile phone internet access

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On 2014-10-06 12:00, arch-general-request at archlinux.org wrote:
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
>    1. Re: mobile phone internet access (Jesse Jaara)
>    2. Re: mobile phone internet access (Mateus Rodrigues Costa)
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 22:17:36 +0300
> From: Jesse Jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] mobile phone internet access
> 
> Activate the tether on the connected phone an check if it is registered 
> as
> a network interface by running 'ip addr' if not check the dmesg. If the
> phone uses regular android tether and not some funky custom tether by 
> the
> manufacturer it should register as a rndis USB ethernet device.
> 
> 

There is no "funky" software in use. On another rpm linux portable pc, 
mobile phone internet is enabled, the usb cable plugged into computer 
and a dialogue window appears to confirm connection to the phone.

extracts below of dmesg output:

[    0.846957] systemd-udevd[40]: starting version 212
[    0.882331] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:MOU2] at 
0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
...
[    0.909112] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.909143] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.912781] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.913690] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.914639] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) 
Driver
[    0.914891] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[    0.915069] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[    0.915081] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned 
bus numbea
...
[    7.209623] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 
git-1.2.2
[    7.209630] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[    7.211802] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
[    7.211809] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
[    7.212565] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network 
Connection
...
[    7.673534] systemd-udevd[130]: renamed network interface eth0 to 
wlp2s4
...
[   77.836709] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 2 using 
ehci-pci
[   78.086356] usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[   78.087740] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
[   78.087918] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
...



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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:21:30 -0300
> From: Mateus Rodrigues Costa <charles.costar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] mobile phone internet access
> 
> 2014-10-05 16:12 GMT-03:00 Neven Sajko <nsajko at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I don't use a network manager and SystemD makes it just work for me
>> when I connect the cable.
>> There are instructions for configuring a network on the Network wiki 
>> page.
>> (Basically just ip link set *interface* up)
> 
> 
> Maybe he needs to install the android-udev package so udev can 
> recognize
> the Android device?
> 

Installed this package, but had no visible, known effect.

> Original Sender, could you check if you have more than one cable
> interfaces?
> 

Does dmesg output above inform?