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Questions tagged [reverse-tethering]

Turning your laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot or connect your Android/iPhone over USB.

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How to share a wired Internet connection with an Android phone (reverse-tethering)?

I have been trying to share my wired Internet connection with my Android phone. However I could not succeed in doing this. Has anyone of you ever succeeded? Operating systems that I use are as follows: Ubuntu 10.10 Android 2.3
Erdem
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Ubuntu-touch reverse USB tethering

I'm trying to get the internet from my Nexus 4 ubuntu-touch through the USB as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Android_Tethering (this is for Android). What I cannot accomplish is to see the USB as a network using ifconfig…
Martin Fasani
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Ubuntu 15.10: share internet connection over WiFi

Having two WiFi interfaces I'd like to use one as a hotspot, but the simple instructions found here don't work, no new wireless network is detected by any device (neither Android nor Windows PC). Any clue? Are in Ubuntu 15.10 still required…
mmj
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Why doesn't Android recognize the WiFi hotspot created via Ubuntu?

I have created WiFi hot spot via my Ubuntu laptop. And now I turned on WiFi in my Android mobile to access the internet but I'm unable to view the hotspot that I had created via Ubuntu laptop. Did I do anything wrong? I want to access the internet…
Annapureddy Hari
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Set up a bluetooth DUN as HOST

I can't find instructions on how to make my Ubuntu share its internet connection through bluetooth. The goal is to connect my Android smartphone to the Internet. My laptop is connected to the WiFi network. The router filters the devices and won't…
Gui Imamura
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Reverse Tethering ubuntu to iphone

I want to share my ubuntu's internet connection to iphone 5.Can you help me?
sunilkjt
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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 Tipo mobile phone with the above laptop using…
Karim Kfoury
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Logitech m150 wireless mouse is behaving totally reverse in Ubuntu 19.04 update. Please help

I updated from 18.04 to 18.10 and then to 19.04. the mouse and trackpad are behaving totally in reverse direction. Can it be solved?
Ashok Kharya
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Internet Sharing from my ubuntu 18.04

I want to share internet from my Ubuntu 18.04 PC to another 3 pcs in a network via a hub through ethernet. Please help me.
Radhika Sharma
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Ubuntu touch reverse tethering and click apps/updates

I configured reverse USB tethering between my laptop (with ubuntu 15.04) and my Nexus 4 (with ubuntu touch OTA 5 rev 22). It works well for most applications, like web browser, GPS navigators, ubuntu-touch.fr webapp, but it does not work when I…
Nicolas
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USB Tether keeps repeating 'Checking phone status...'

I am attempting to use the wireless capability of my Asus Memo Pad HD 7 ME173x tablet as an access point for my Ubuntu PC over USB. I installed USB Tether on both my tablet and my computer. I activate the program on the tablet and it seems to work…
Adriaan
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How to share iPad's internet to Ubuntu 24.04 running on Orange Pi?

I want to use an iPad Pro as a device that connect to the Orange PI via USB-C or Ad-Hoc Wireless. The Orange PI will be running Visual Studio Code Server. The internet should be shared from the iPad (Personal Hotspot OR Tethered via USB-C) Can…
GettingStarted
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