Forgive me if this is not the correct 'area' to post to. I can't seem to find anything at all in regards to what I need/want. Basically, I've got BackTrack5 running on my Sidekick 4g, but the current wireless driver that's installed on the phone does not support monitor mode / packet injection. I was under the impression that most new devices would have an updated driver for the wireless device that would in fact support this. I can't seem to dig up any information on the web or my phone itself to tell me what hardware device it's using. Does anyone know what driver it's using or perhaps know where to get an updated driver package so I can try to get this working? Has anyone out there put BT5 ARM on their Sidekick?
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I've been trying to use the built-in USB tethering with Ubuntu 10.10 without any luck. On my previous Android phones (EVO, Nexus One), all I had to do was plug in the phone, select Internet Connection Mode or USB Tethering, and Ubuntu would automatically find a new connection (Auto usb0). That's it...no config needed.
The Thunderbolt has been another story. I can't get Ubuntu to see an internet connection for anything.
Can anyone shed any light on this? I'd really prefer to use the built-in tethering rather than go to something like EasyTether or PdaNet.
I'd still say easytether
All I have to do is type easytether connect and bam
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Me too
I also have been trying desperately to make this work too, since it worked so well with my Eris and other phones. I think the problem lies in the proprietary HTC drivers - it seems that the driver built into LibUSB for cellular modems doesn't play nice with the HTC software. In Windows, there is an executable that installs the driver, and I have been thinking that I might be able to make it work using Ndiswrapper, but I have not had time to play around with it a whole lot.
I suspect that a release will come along eventually to update libUSB to work with the new HTC software, but in the mean time, EasyTether works great. I made a quicklaunch icon in gnome panel that links to the the EasyTether connection script - it will have to do until I can get native tethering to work.
If anyone else is working on this, I'd be willing to lend a hand with testing and troubleshooting.
Seems like I have the same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and my rooted HD2 running Android. I think it has got something to do with the RDNIS drivers or something ??? Easytether is no option because it works for like 5 minutes then I need to restart the connection to get it working again ( very annoying ). I would much rather prefer to use the inbuilt tethering option on my rooted phone than yet another pointless piece of software. Maybe another Linux distro that supports this way of tethering ???
Thanks !
I install Ubuntu 11.04 for my laptop but only wired work but not wireless? Can someone help me?
It's very possible that you have a wireless chipset where the drivers are not open source and thereby integrated directly into Ubuntu. What I would do is plug in via wire and then open your restricted hardware manager, otherwise known in some versions of Ubuntu as "hardware drivers". See if something comes up there. If anything will, it's likely to be Broadcom. From there, download it, reboot, and you should be wireless.
Make sure your hardware switch is not disabled as well, as that would directly effect Ubuntu's ability to pick up wireless networks.
Can you post the output of "lspci" from terminal?
i'll let u know.. thanks
just wondering if there is any way to get usb tethering working on Linux. My last phone (LG Optimus T) worked out of the box, but my SK4G has never tethered. I've tried on Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuSE to no avail. FWIW I just tried tethering on my old phone and it does not work either, but that could be because I am running an unstable ICS build. The last time I used it, I was on Cyanogenmod7.1 and everything was fine.
Could it be a kernel module is no longer present in the generic Linux kernel? Weird thing is though that I just built the latest kernel and made sure the Android modules were included and still, no tethering.
PDA Net works fine on OSX. I don't have a Windows install to test with though so I can't confirm whether it works on Windows.
I do believe PDA net works in Windows, but I've never been able to do any kind of usb tethering in Ubuntu. I was under the impression it just doesn't work, unless someone else knows a way?
All you should need is a generic "NDIS" driver. Not sure if one exists for *nix or not, but I would think one would.
The Sidekick is just really not a good phone when it comes to drivers and things like that.
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The Sidekick is just really not a good phone when it comes to drivers and things like that.
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...but for USB Tether that shouldn't matter. The generic ALL SAMSUNG PHONES driver should work, and on top of that, the generic NDIS driver should work with ANY android phone. (again, there is a generic Microsoft NDIS driver for windows, not sure about *nix, but I'd be very surprised if such a thing didn't exist)
not to split hairs but incorrect on all accounts. There is no need whatsoever to use NDIS drivers since Android support is built specifically into the Linux kernel. NDIS is not really a solution that is used anymore. The vast majority of regular ethernet and Wifi NICs work out of the box with the exception of some that have proprietary kernel modules that aren't shipped by default with distros due to licensing conflicts.
that being said, USB tethering is a whole different ball game. And as far back as Ubuntu 9.10 USB tethering has worked out of the box on Android phones. But since I think 11.04 (probably with kernel 2.34 I believe) it has ceased working. I came across a kernel patch for the USB ethernet modules used by Android devices, but I have yet to have any success with tethering, even on the patched kernel.
As I said, I don't have a Windows install on any of my computers, we're all Linux and OSX here. PDA Net works just fine on OSX.
wired tether doesn't work on my old phone either, but that may be because it's running a very bleeding edge unstable ROM.
Interesting. All I know is my CarPC uses tinyXP which includes no drivers. I downloaded the microsoft NDIS driver (just a .inf file), and it allowed my USB Tether to start working. I hope that clue helps you in your search for a solution.
UPDATE: Actually, I guess this most recent reinstall I did use samsung drivers. The drivers I used are attached in a zip. I know it's not *nix drivers, but maybe it will help you find the right thing.
Having a problem getting USB tethering to work on my computer running Windows 7 64-bit. My htc Droid Incredible (Verizon) has Linaro Optimized CM9 (which, by the way, is running very nicely so far). I connected it to the computer and enable tethering on the phone, and heard some Plug and Play connection noises, but when it went to load drivers it said that the RNDIS driver could not be found.
Checking Device Manager, I don't see any new network adapter that references the phone. I do see an Android ADB Interface listed under Android Phones, but there is a yellow exclamation on RNDIS, of course.
Have tried the following, based on suggestions I got on some other forums:
1) Loaded the latest version of HTC Sync to get drivers installed...no go, same issue listed in Device Manager. If I actually launch HTC Sync, it says that no phone is connected.
2) Tried an HBOOT driver from the unrevoked root wiki ... still nothing.
3) Tried installing--in Device Manager--some (but not all) of the different Microsoft RNDIS drivers that are available, but the install does not succeed. Usually says that it could not start the device, or something like that.
I'm really here, though, because someone just stated the following:
"The ROM may be your problem... since cm9 is not officially supported on the incredible...the ROM is a port from another phone, so that could be the cause of your problem... I'd make a nandroid of your current setup and try wired tethering with the official cm7 ROM."
Sounds plausible, I guess, but I would have thought that there would have been something here about this (if there was, I couldn't find it). I also have the nagging suspicion that the issue is on the computer and not the phone. So before I go backing up and changing ROMs, can anyone please confirm or refute as to whether this particular ROM would "break" USB tethering as described above?
Thanks in advance!
Mike
P.S. Wireless hotspot tethering works just fine, by the way. But I would like to be able to tether via USB cable as well.
P.P.S. Tried to post this in the pertinent thread started by mamarley, but I think I'm prohibited from doing so because I am brand new to the forum.
Hi,
I am investigating a project using the Alcatel Y855 MiFi device, and want to be able to use the device in station mode, rather than the default AP mode.
The WiFi chipset in this devices is the Qualcomm / Atheros AR6004.
This is a relatively open device (allows direct SSH access!), which makes modding the OS build on it easy.
However (presumably because it is a MiFi) the WiFi chipset on it appears to be set up in a way that only allows it to run properly in AP mode - in Station mode, the performance seems to be limited to a very low rate (looks like forced to 802.11b, it will never sync above 11Mbit/s)
So my specific question is whether anyone has tried to use this device in station mode, and had any success?
A more general question is whether anyone has any experiences of any other devices that are based around this WiFi chipset, and therefore can give any pointers to sources of the drivers and firmware files (that live in /lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6004/hw3.0) that are designed for devices using the chipset that run in station mode.
Thanks in advance for any advice / experiences!
Michael