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When the only internet link is the [[Nokia N900|N900]], how to connect a laptop to it and use it to connect to the net? | When the only internet link is the [[Nokia N900|N900]], how to connect a laptop to it and use it to connect to the net? | ||
- | There is two modes for doing this: Using the [[Nokia N900|N900]] as a dumb mobile broadband modem to the phone network, | + | There is two modes for doing this: Using the [[Nokia N900|N900]] as a dumb mobile broadband modem to the phone network, or set up full USB networkgin between the computer and the N900 using the N900 as a router to whatever network it's connected to (phone, wlan, etc..) |
- | The modem model should be available mostly automatically on most OS | + | The modem model should be available mostly automatically on most OS:es when you connect the phone over USB (Bluethooth alsp possible with an addon). Windows may need th PC Suite installed however. This however only works for phone network connections, not wlan connections. |
The other variant using full USB networking support is not enabled in the default USB profile of the N900 and needs some tweaking to be enabled, but once enabled it gives you full network access to both the N900 and connection sharing of whatever Internet connection the N900 currently have (phone, wlan, etc...) | The other variant using full USB networking support is not enabled in the default USB profile of the N900 and needs some tweaking to be enabled, but once enabled it gives you full network access to both the N900 and connection sharing of whatever Internet connection the N900 currently have (phone, wlan, etc...) | ||
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== On the N900 == | == On the N900 == |
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