Four years ago I first installed FreeBSD and was liking it in a lot of ways, but then my computer died. Now I finally have a newer computer with a Sandy Bridge CPU and 8 GB of RAM and would like to get geeky again. However, I gave up my huge cable bill in favor of a medium sized cell phone bill and now the only internet connection I have access to is via:
I have found that the rtl8188su chipset is not supported in the default kernel because of its firmware and/or license. My phone's tethering app says it is compatible with Windows and Linux, but says nothing about *BSD or Mac OS. With only 5 GB of data a month I don't want to download the FreeBSD .iso file unless I am sure I can get networking going with just a standard install. Does anyone know a way to test my phone to see if tethering will work? Also, any links to additional reading materials about tethering and FreeBSD 9.1 would be very appreciated.
Thanks for reading all of this,
M
- Tethering my Android phone to my PC.
- Using my Android phone as a WiFi hotspot with an rtl8188su USB NIC.
I have found that the rtl8188su chipset is not supported in the default kernel because of its firmware and/or license. My phone's tethering app says it is compatible with Windows and Linux, but says nothing about *BSD or Mac OS. With only 5 GB of data a month I don't want to download the FreeBSD .iso file unless I am sure I can get networking going with just a standard install. Does anyone know a way to test my phone to see if tethering will work? Also, any links to additional reading materials about tethering and FreeBSD 9.1 would be very appreciated.
Thanks for reading all of this,
M