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Mouse not working after installing wifi mouse
Just installed wifi mouse (allows you to control keyboard and mouse remotely from android phone) after a reboot, the touch-pad no longer works. Any suggestions?
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Problem setting up PPTPD
I'm attempting to set up a VPN from my Android phone to my home computer using pptpd on Ubuntu 12.10. I have so far done the following.
Setup a virtual NIC like this...
cat /etc/network/interfaces
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How to share my laptop internet connection with Android Sony Xperia Tipo?
My laptop Dell Inspiron-1525 has Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card as the wireless network card.
Does this adapter support AP, can it work as Access Point?
If yes, can I connect with a Sony Xperia ...
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Sharing internet between mac mini (with ubuntu) and android
I have an old mac mini on which I istalled Ubuntu. It works quite fine except for few issues.
One of the issues is as follows: I used this Mac Mini as a hot-spot for sharing ethernet -> wi-fi ...
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Make laptop files accessible to android device over laptop Wifi antenna?
I would like to be able to access the files on my Ubuntu laptop from my Android phone and tablet. Ideally, I would want to do this over my own secure Wlan and then over sftp or Samba shares.
Since ...
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Why doesn't the second “Wired connection” show up when USB-tethering with my Android phone?
I know how to tether via USB using Android to my Ubuntu 10.04 and this How to Tether Android Smartphone to Ubuntu Linux how-to is what I have been doing for the last couple of months (running fine).
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Network sharing for android
I am on ubuntu 12.04 and I want to create a wifi hotspot to be used with my android device. Now I know there are so many tutorials available every where and that I have all options in network tab to ...
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Android to 12.04 USB tether not working
I'm trying to USB tether an Android phone (SGS2 LTE) to 12.04 to use its Internet connection. Enabling "USB tethering" on the phone brings up a "wired connection 2" on the network connections menu.
I ...
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configure ufw firewall to allow usb tethering of android
I can tether my laptop by USB to my ubuntu computer only when I disable my ufw firewall. (Otherwise the network is detected but continues trying to connect to it without success. I can tether using ...
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device shows up in lsusb + adb but not in ifconfig
I'm running Ubuntu in the VMWare Player under Windows 7:
root@ubuntu:/# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 17:34:21 UTC 2012 i686 \
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I'm trying to ...
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How can I create an ad-hoc connection that looks like a wifi connection from a router?
I have a Vizio tablet (running a modified version of Android 2.3.2) which, for some reason or another, refuses to list Windows ad-hoc WiFi connections on it's WiFi connection screen. It can connect to ...
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How to share the 3g internet connection of my Android Nexus One with my laptop?
I have an Android Nexus One with 3g internet connection. I have a Asus Brazos laptop with Ubuntu 11.10. I would like to share the internet connection of my Nexus One with my laptop.
In my Nexus One. ...
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USB Tethering (over USB) with Android 2.2 not working [closed]
It's working with Maverick, but it breaks with Natty.
OS detect device, network-manager tries to connect (1), but fails (2):
Output of dmesg, lshw, lsusb, lspci, nm-tool, ifconfig and lsmod on ...
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USB tethered connection via Nexus One not showing on NetworkManager
When plugging my Nexus One (Android 2.3.3) via USB and activating the "USB Tethering" option, I cannot enable the connection via Network Manager, because I just see a gray "Disconnected" option.
If I ...
