ZTE phones as modems on Beaver - anyone try that?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:31:54PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
>    On 16 December 2021 12:50:08 Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    I'm trying to get a consumers' cellular phone to act as a USB modem on
> 
>    a laptop running Ubuntu Bionic Beaver.
> 
>    I have often used a cellphone as the connection to the network for an Ubuntu laptop, just connected them via USB (or even
>    Bluetooth). But not on Bionic Beaver.
> 
>    The drivers on the phone did not
> 
>    install correctly and they are labelled for earlier versions.
> 
>    I've never heard of drivers for this. Are these drivers for installing on the computer, or on the phone?
>    Maybe US phones have some special block on them?

I tried plugging it in to my Dell running 16 LTS and the laptop 
with Beaver and neither worked right away. It may be somethiing
with consumers cellular the carrier. The phone comes up
with a choice between using it as a disk or modem
but neither option works. I would like to download
the images as bluetooth is not reliable as it looks
like their app has a bug often loading file "Null"
lol. At least if I used it as a disk it would be
easier to write a script to retry. 

I guess ideally it would also function as a camera
and microphone over USB without a special app
or for that matter make/answer phone calls :) 


Thanks. 


>    Peter

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