Internet access via phone.

[balanga]

When I use my pone as a hotspot, I have no problems connecting to the Internet from Windows, but can't get this working under FreeBSD.

Previously I was able to connect from FreeBSD via a broadband router, but simply changing the SSID and password did not work.

Do I need additional parameter when connecting via a phone.

I was able to see the SSID when doing a scan but no connection was established.

Alternatively I can connect using USB tethering and when running dhclient ue0 I get an IP address asigned.

What do I need to do after that?

 

[cracauer@]

USB tethering after DHCP works should be sufficient for full Internet access. What isn't working?

 

[balanga]

I just tried it again on another computer and it works fine.

The problem was that I also had an ethernet connection and did know how the change the default route.

 

[blackbird9]

I've had it working in the past with an android phone both using the phone as a wifi hotspot and also via usb cable tether, they both worked, using DHCP..

 

[cy@]

I've used my and my employer's phones as hotspots for three of my FreeBSD laptops (and for my employer provided W11 laptop). No problems here. The three FreeBSD laptops had iwm(4), iwn(4), and rtwn(4) NICs.

Network performance was poor, though better with my employer's phone as they have a better (higher priced) plan than I do.

 

[shepper]

Dating myself, but in high school, I ended up in a course where I was taught BASIC. Our programs were stored on paper tape with a reader attached to a teletype. After our code was punched into the tape, we would dial the National Institute of Standards and after it picked up, would put the phone in a cradle and run our tape through the pneumatic reader. A very early iteration of networking by phone and it was really, really slow. That was back when we used to walk through the snow to get to school.

 

[blackbird9]

I had a BBC micro and microvitec monitor at home with kermit in an eprom that was used as a terminal, and a very slow acoustic coupler (phone handset) dialup modem to talk to the univ. mainframe... I can still remember the dial-in tones. I can't remember what the baud rate was... it might have been something like 300, maybe 1200, but whatever it was is was very slow. The thing basically worked as a VT102 emulator onto the VAX. That was back when I used to walk through the winter snow to get into the library; that library used to be so warm...

And that brings me to this moment, where time-honoured duty dictates, by immemorial tradition, that I post this :-

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k

 

[balanga]

And that brings me to this moment, where time-honoured duty dictates, by immemorial tradition, that I post this :-

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k

Being from Yorkshire myself, I find that hilarious.

Many thanks for posting it.

 

[blackbird9]

The great Marty Feldman joined the pythons for that sketch (sitting on the right).