bsd android tethering using USB cable - intermittent failure

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, February 05, 2019 a las 02:36:59PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey escribió:

> Hi hackers@,
> I tether Androids to FreeBSDs using USB cables, Using
> ports/devel/android-tools-adb Mostly it works, but sometimes fails to
> connect, I've no idea why.
> 
> I've tried: different physical androids, different versions of android (4 & 5),
> different physical ports (once I had a cable hanging down didnt connect on
> laptop socket), via hub & direct avoiding usb hub, different FreeBSDs
> (all of 10.4-RELEASE 11.2-RELEASE 13.0-CURRENT), 2 different FreeBSD PCs
> 
> Could someone please please take a look at
> 	http://www.berklix.org/android/#adb
> & perhaps spot what I'm forgetting to initialise ?

With my Ubuntu Phone (which has as well an Android kernel behind the
scenes), I learned that one must enable developer mode and even with
this on connect the display *must* be unlocked and a pop up answered
about the permission.

	matthias

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