Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Droid X is supposed to act as a wifi hotspot for up to five machines so I would think it would be as simple as connecting rite? Thinking about the droid X myself On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: i just bought a droidX to do this very same thing. so yeah it

Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread Dazed_75
I would exercise caution with respect to charges. E.g. under Verizon's plans, doing so can put you into their capped, expensive data plan instead of the unlimited smart phone data plan. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Bryan O'Neal bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote: Droid X is

Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread blake gonterman
While they don't have it working yet, the samsung vibrant/att captivate are really nice gsm phones. If you really like CDMA, then the Sprint Epic 4G might be up your alley. I had a Motorola Cliq for about a week and will never buy another Motorola phone again. I've also heard a few build quality

Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/07/2010 05:36 PM, mike Enriquez wrote: I would like to purchase an Android Phone but I am not clear if I can connect it up to my Ubuntu computer. Is anyone using an Android phone and transferring files from their lunix computer and phone. Thanks for your answer. I have an HTC Incredible.

Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread Brian Cluff
I've had the same experience as the others, my android phone have been plug and play. Additionally I downloaded an ssh server for my phone called quicksshd. I'm sure there are others, but this one cost $99 cents and was well worth the price. I can now drag and drop files off of my phone via

How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-08 Thread joe
How can I rename and format my cruzer 2-gig flash drive so I can install a live distro? Searching the 'net, I found pendrivelinux.com which offered a Universal pen drive installer. When tried to use it, it couldn't see my flash drive. I then found the instructions shown below to Restore a USB

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Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-08 Thread joe
So, how can I rename this flash drive back to sdf and reformat it so I can use it to install a Linux live iso? After further searching the 'net, I did find a way to format the flash drive by using gparted. But I still don't know how to set the name of the drive to 'sdf' instead of 'sdb1' ...

Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread Stephen
there are 2 data plans (not counting corporate email/data) teh unlimited web and phone access. and then their broadband option this is extra, however it is supposed to give you broadband speeds as a moblie wifi hotspot. do not use an app go in to a Verizon store or call in to Verizon to set it up

Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-08 Thread Stephen
try this one. It will fully format your drive at the same time as it copies over your distro, whichever you want http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ I have used the windows version several times with great success. and used the Linux version once. (worked) On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM,

Re: Android phone and linux computer

2010-08-08 Thread Kevin Faulkner
On Saturday 07 August 2010 15:56:37 Stephen wrote: i just bought a droidX to do this very same thing. so yeah it can. sadly you cant get teh same tethering features on some of them, but im hopeing the droidX will (untested) When I had my G1 and I did tethering over USB it would come up as an