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2009-11-19
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Can anyone test using the N900 as the tether client?
I would really like a N900, but it would be useless to me without this ability.
I would really like a N900, but it would be useless to me without this ability.
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2009-11-19
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Originally Posted by mrlanrat
Unfortunately, there's nothing to test right now. The DUN client functionality that was present in previous Maemo releases has been removed in Maemo 5. Also, as I understand it, those now-missing bits were closed source in previous releases, so there's no old code for the community to reintegrate and recompile now.
Can anyone test using the N900 as the tether client?
Desktop Linux systems can tether to phones using DUN, of course, so I'm sure the N900 can too...eventually. First, someone needs to invest the time and energy to pull the pieces together and package them up. It probably can't be as nicely integrated as it was in the past though.
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2009-11-20
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Hm, I will be needing this feature too, when I get the N900. Currently I tether my N800 to a phone for 2G/3G, and that's what I'll have to continue to do with the N900: I want to use my N900 as my private phone, but the data plan is with the work phone.
Methinks Nokia or someone was thinking too narrowly if the feature was removed/disabled because the N900 happened to have a built-in phone. The real world is a bit more complex.
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So, in addition to the 'Fixed in Fremantle' T-shirt we'll also need a 'Removed in Fremantle' T-shirt? 
Last edited by TA-t3; 2009-11-20 at 14:37.
Methinks Nokia or someone was thinking too narrowly if the feature was removed/disabled because the N900 happened to have a built-in phone. The real world is a bit more complex.
EDIT:
The DUN client functionality that was present in previous Maemo releases has been removed in Maemo 5
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-- Metalayer-crawler delenda est.
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Last edited by TA-t3; 2009-11-20 at 14:37.
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2009-11-24
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#45
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You can tether via USB with PC-Suite. Not the cleanest solution, but the USB connection is reliable, and it powers the phone while using the 3G connection.
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2009-11-24
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Originally Posted by ceeceebee
That does not make the N900 a wireless client of another phone, which is the topic of the thread.
You can tether via USB with PC-Suite. Not the cleanest solution, but the USB connection is reliable, and it powers the phone while using the 3G connection.
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2009-11-27
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby
N900 shows DUN, FTP, OPP and SPP supported profiles with paired devices such as N97 and E71. So infrastructurally answer is yes. Practically no since someone needs to write the app to enanble this.... nothing else to discuss.
That does not make the N900 a wireless client of another phone, which is the topic of the thread.
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2009-12-05
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Have there been any further developments on enabling N900 as a tethered client? Is there a Nokia site to request features?
This is the only thing that is keeping me from buying the thing...
This is the only thing that is keeping me from buying the thing...
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2009-12-05
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The idea to code an app for the N900 so you access data on another mobile's modem via Bluetooth DUN certainly has my vote ! This has been a dream function with the N810.
That way phone for business contacts and calls and tablet tethered for fun with media and general surfing with the excellent maemo web browser.
That way phone for business contacts and calls and tablet tethered for fun with media and general surfing with the excellent maemo web browser.
Last edited by sjgadsby; 2009-11-19 at 19:24.