Hi Andrew, Fedora 9 in awfully old... Try boot off live CD with latest Fedora (17). If Fedora 17 behaves, it may be lime to upgrade system on laptop ;-) Good luck! Valeri On Wed, August 22, 2012 5:47 pm, Andrew Daviel wrote: > I have a Nokia E71 phone, an N810 and a laptop > running Fedora Core 9. The laptop has Bluetooth, also a USB cable to > connect to the E71. > > If I have a good signal, I can use the packet data interface on the phone > itself, or on the N810 via Bluetooth to get an Internet connection. > But the laptop does not always work. Close to a tower, if I use the cable > and select 'PC Suite' mode on the phone, the Gnome network app shows a > wireless connection and syslog talks about ttyACM0 and activating my > connection. > Further away from a tower, the connection does not show in the app and > syslog says 'ignoring due to lack of mobile broadband capability' > > I had naively thought the two devices used the same capability on the > phone. > > Does anyone know what the problem is, and if it's possible to get a > connection on the laptop at greater distance ? > > > -- > Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
