[SOLVED]Installing Updates

[N4RPS]

Hello!

Glad you were able to sort it all out. I went through this, also - I guess a recent kernel update broke the Broadcom drivers. Next time, I'll just roll back to the older kernel.

If you have an Android phone, and that feature has not been removed from its ROM by your carrier, you SHOULD be able to 'tether' it to the PC for Internet access. I use this feature frequently when I'm out and about...

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Rob

[Kalifornia]

Hello!

Glad you were able to sort it all out. I went through this, also - I guess a recent kernel update broke the Broadcom drivers. Next time, I'll just roll back to the older kernel.

If you have an Android phone, and that feature has not been removed from its ROM by your carrier, you SHOULD be able to 'tether' it to the PC for Internet access. I use this feature frequently when I'm out and about...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Thanks. I do have an Android phone, but I've never done any tethering, so I wouldn't even know where to begin that. I guess a Google search would be in order.

[N4RPS]

Hello!

To look online is best, because that UIAM, the tethering procedure depends on which version of Android you have. In 4.2, it is:

Settings > Wireless & Networks (More...) > Tethering & Portable Hotspot, connect USB cable to PC, then select 'USB Tethering'.

The connection will appear as a new wired connection on the LL taskbar.

NOTE: The availability of this capability depends on whether or not your carrier has removed it from the ROM of their phone.

Here, most of the discount carriers disable hotspot/tethering on the phones sold in their stores, so you use a phone that isn't disabled instead. (The truth is, for all that anyone knows, you're surfing from the phone, since Linux and Android IP packets have the same Time To Live [64])...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob