ZTE phones as modems on Beaver - anyone try that?

[Peter Flynn]

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?

Peter
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