When you plug in the phone, you should see a USB symbol in the notification bar on the top of the screen. If you pull down the notification bar and tap on the USB icon, you should get an option to select mass USB storage mode. You'll also need to make sure you have the 3G USB device driver installed. Many minimalist distros don't include uncommonly used drivers by default. As I learned on Arch Linux, make sure you use a USB 2 port. The 3G driver doesn't play nicely with USB 3.
Anand. On 2012-06-03, at 10:41 AM, Ralph Pichie <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night (or this morning) I tried a Vector Linux live CD on my > desktop computer. All was good, except that it did not seem to detect > my Samsung Galaxy Q phone running Android, though it was connected by > USB. I normally use a tethered phone for internet access here and at > work in lieu of a proper cable or DSL connection. Wicd had no problem > seeing wifi from the neighbours, but did nothing for tethering through > the Wind. > > Aside from the desktop, I would like to try it on a netbook that > currently runs Lubuntu11.10 and a new ThinkPad T420. > > Is the problem related to using a live CD instead of an installed system? > Is there a setting that I could change in Vector Linux to effect tethering? > Should I install a network manager that is more likely to work with > tethering of phones? > > Should I just enable an access point from the phone and use that with the VL > OS? > > Ralph > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
