One of the best ways to allow other devices to use your phone’s data plan to get on the internet (a process called tethering) is to have your phone become a little wifi hotspot. Then, any wifi device can get internet access via your phone. To do this with the HTC Aria, follow these steps:
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If things don’t work out, check the android-wifi-tether log to make sure it has found and is loading the firmware file.
\nI have confirmed that this procedure works for unencrypted wifi tethering on my HTC Aria to a Ubuntu laptop. You can control access via MAC address filtering, but keep in mind that anybody with a wifi card can see all of your network traffic (and MAC address spoofing is trivial.)<\/p>\n
I am currently attempting to get WEP-128 bit encryption working perfectly with Ubuntu Linux. (Wifi-Tethering does not currently support WPA encryption.) I have been able to get the phone to export a WEP encrypted wifi signal, but the Ubuntu Network manager has a problem connecting to it. I am able to connect to the WEP encrypted wifi form the phone if I configure the laptop’s wireless interface manually with a script such as the following: One of the best ways to allow other devices to use your phone’s data plan to get on the internet (a process called tethering) is to have your phone become a little wifi hotspot. Then, any wifi device can get … Continue reading
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\nsudo service network-manager stop
\nsleep 1
\nsudo ifconfig eth1 down
\nsudo iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc
\nsudo iwconfig eth1 essid AndroidTether
\nsudo iwconfig eth1 key s:SUPERSECRETKEY
\nsudo ifconfig eth1 up
\nsleep 2
\nsudo dhclient eth1
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