Connect laptop to Boost phone?

[Steve Reilly]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Steve:
> 
> Now that I know it is possible to do under
> windows, now I have to figure out how to do
> it in Ubuntu.  

plug it in usb, and open a terminal and command dmesg . see if you get
something like this

[21766.040060] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 2
[21766.303856] usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[21766.305128] option 6-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[21766.305306] usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0


steve