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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:51:19 -0500
From:      ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
Subject:   Re: android phone -pc-ineternet
Message-ID:  <201103170551.19924.lumiwa@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D815CA5.9060207@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <201103121802.10051.lumiwa@gmail.com> <201103161604.24764.lumiwa@gmail.com> <4D815CA5.9060207@herveybayaustralia.com.au>

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On Wednesday March 16 2011 19:58:13 Da Rock wrote:
> On 03/17/11 07:04, ajtiM wrote:
> > On Wednesday March 16 2011 09:39:11 Mark Felder wrote:
> >> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:48:45 -0500, Da Rock
> >> 
> >> <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>  wrote:
> >>> IF I understand you correctly here, you need to configure the wifi
> >>> connection on your phone, and have a wifi access point available. Else-
> >>> see above...
> >> 
> >> No, he's referring to wired tethering over USB. This is the preferred
> >> way of tethering to your phone because it doesn't drain your battery or
> >> start your phone on fire :)
> >> 
> >> I've not had success with it on FreeBSD but I must admit I haven't put
> >> much effort into it.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Mark
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> > 
> > I want to connect a phone with usb to PC and use Internet through PC.
> > At work Itried on MAC compuer and it easy but onn FreeBSD I don't know
> > how. I don't have wirelless at home and I like to use wired...
> 
> To do so you'd have to have a rooted Android system to change the
> routing. They're not designed to operate like that.
> 
> As for the driver- I posted before that its a project to do...
> 
> BTW can anyone confirm 8.3 release date and driver support for iPhone
> and/or Android? Although I'm reasonably sure iPhone uses a very
> different method than Android from my research.
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The Android phone HTC Inspire 4G is design to use "Internet Pass-through" (has 
an option) and mine is not rooted and on Mac computer is not a problem to 
setup and us it. I read on the forums tha people use on Linux too and Windows.

Mitja
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