Install Arch using mobile broadband.

Hey! Is it possible to install Arch Linux using a mobile broadband? If it is, how do I do it?
I tried to modprobe usbserial but it wasn't found, can I get the module before the installation?
Thanks for reading, Pics.

Yes and no.
Yes: ppp is on the installer CD, but nobody seems to know how to work with it. Try this and/or this.
No: wvdial is not on the installer CD.
Workaround: Put wvdial and wvstreams on a USB stick.
There's been some discussion about inclusion of wvdial on the installer: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 14388.html
Last edited by schivmeister (2010-10-13 23:19:23)

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Network Manager: Problem using Mobile Broadband

Hello,
I'm trying to use NetworkManager to configure an Internet connection using a 3G modem USB dongle.
I have a Huawei E160 on O2.
Steps taken so far:
* Installed NetworkManager using the ArchWiki article:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager
* nm-applet would not start, and the error on the virtual terminal matched that in the troubleshooting section of that article. I backed up and changed those 2 files. I don't know much about PolicyKit but nm-applet started and was able to connect to a WiFi network.
* I tried connecting to O2: the device was detected but on attempting to connect, the nm-applet connecting icon froze or stuttered (as in the animation was about 0.2fps).
* Errors on the tty indicated that nm was looking for files that did not exist. After searching I found a package 'mobile-broadband-provider-info' on LaunchPad which is included in Ubuntu. I found it in the AUR and installed it.
* Tried again, same behaviour of the icon, but this time errors on the tty resembled the errors that occured when nm-applet would not start.
I'm guessing the problem is with the PolicyKit configuration in the 2 files:
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf
If we can put together a general solution to 3G modems (rather than my specific problem), I will be willing to help out with the relevant wiki articles (probably after my exams).
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James Haigh.

Hooray! It's working!
I booted into Arch to run nm-applet from the terminal emulator to collect the exact error message to post, but then I noticed the mast icon!
I couldn't figure out why this now worked but I wondered if Ubuntu had sort of initialised the modem somehow (when I started this thread using the LiveCD, that was the first time I'd got it to work).
I don't think it was the restart because I'm pretty sure I restarted after installing mobile-broadband-provider-info.
So I started to read the new replies. I thought I'd set pacman to download (and install) arch-wiki-docs while I write a reply. My USB wireless mouse stuttered and stopped working. I tried replugging it, syncing it, wouldn't work. The download which was going at about 20KB/s (I thought this was due to bad reception; my O2 phone gets 1 or 2 notches here at college), stuttered and spewed out errors.
My tablet PC annoyingly has only 2 USB ports and no CD drive. So to use a LiveCD, keyboard and dongle I had to use a hub. I left the hub in when I booted Arch, and unplugging it fixed my mouse and dongle. The download went about 100KB/s!
But I wasn't using the hub before I used the LiveCD. I was just using the keyboard and dongle, and a great Firefox add-on called LoL, which makes browsing with no mouse easier.
(If interested, this list including LoL is useful:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … n/keyboard )
So the initial problem is at least 1 of these:
* Bad reception
* Ubuntu initialised the modem but my installation/configuration of Arch could not
* I forgot to restart if/when it mattered
And the 2nd problem was the hub.
These weren't problems:
* ConsoleKit configuration
* Settings
I tried to understand those 2 files using GVim's diff with the backups and I couldn't see anything to try, so I left them unchanged.
My settings are in the manual for the dongle. They're not in mobile-broadband-provider-info so I will file a bug to make it easier for Ubuntu users etc. Looking at /usr/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml I made this:
<apn value="m-bb.o2.co.uk">
<name>Pay & Go</name>
<username>o2bb</username>
<password>password</password>
</apn>
The manual also says that:
* Tel no: *99# (which appears to be default and is never specified in serviceproviders.xml)
* Authentication: PAP (Also not specified, the default of try all methods works for me)
I could add a mobile broadband subsection to the troubleshooting section of the wiki article:
* Check signal
* Check USB
And add relevant links on articles like 'USB_3G_Modem' etc.
owain wrote:...I felt a bit let down that some update, somewhere, had changed my settings without letting me know (there certainly wasn't a pacsave or pacnew which I'd missed).
I like pacman and I like the way upgrading my system is my responsibility but that shouldn't have happened without a message. I'll be aware of things like this now, thanks.
Misfit138 wrote:Moved, as requested.
Thank you.
schuay wrote:
JamesHaigh wrote:
To install packages from the AUR, I suppose I'd have to:
* look at the PKGBUILD and figure out what files I need
* download the files onto my hard drive and save relevant wiki articles
* restart and boot into Arch
* modify the PKGBUILD
* build and install.
Also, command line configuration of connections might not be very practical at college; if something goes wrong I won't be able to access the ArchWiki, Google or other help. Although it might be worth a try.
Yeah that sounds about right (except you don't need to modify the PKGBUILD, just place the downloaded files in the same folder as the PKGBUILD and run makepkg).
That's useful to know.
Once you've got your internet running you can install 'community/arch-wiki-docs' for offline wiki access.
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[SOLVED]How exactly do you install Arch using UEFI?

I want to switch my laptop to UEFI. I have a few questions I'd like to ask.
* Does UEFI require a bios boot partition?
* If not but I add a bios boot partition and efi partition is it true I can boot into my system both with UEFI enabled and not enabled?
Will the following set my laptop to use UEFI?
Create a partition scheme as follows;
1. bios boot -- about 2mb -- ef02
2. efi boot partition -- about 200mb (is this size about right?) -- fat32
3. root -- 8300
4. swap
5. home -- 8300
Then when I mount everything I make sure to mount the efi partition like
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot/efi
It goes to /boot/efi right?
Then when installing GRUB, I install it like;
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck
And finally I'd run the
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Is that the gist for the most part?
Last edited by stevenmw (2014-12-18 17:51:37)

Here is what I did,
I booted Arch install media (not from UEFI).
I made my partition scheme is gdisk:
1. 2M -- ef02 -- BIOS boot
2. 500M -- ef00 -- efi
3. 30G -- 8300 -- root
4. 12G -- 8200 -- swap
5. 195G -- 8300 -- home
I then did my mkfs:
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda2
mkfs.fat -s2 -F32 /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mkswap /dev/sda4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda5
When I first made my file extensions I made the mistake of not making the efi partition fat32. I knew it had to be fat32 and I wasn't sure if just making it ef00 was enough. So I searched Google. I didn't find much so I pushed forward.
I eventually got an error when trying to do grub-install, it said /dev/sda2 does not look like and efi partition.
So I thought about it, was it the size I chose, was it that I was just putting it in /boot, was it not fat32? I immediately decided it must not be fat32. And I was right. After a search I discovered I needed to do mkfs.fat. So I did this and success! Grub installed everything where it needed to be. (So it is true when they say Arch doesn't care if you have /boot/efi or /boot/EFI. Just using /boot is enough. That is fact.)
But now I had another error. I forgot to install efibootmgr package... By this time I thought I had it so I started all over. This was actually my laptop so I wasn't going to give it more than two tries. So I started from scratch. A second and final try...
I set up my partition scheme, did my mk stuff, and mounted all of my filesystems. Then Installed the base and base-devel packages. I went into arch-chroot on /mnt and then into a bash..
I went through a couple of basic setup things and then I installed grub and efibootmgr. I then ran
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck
Hooray! No errors reported! I checked /boot and everything was there and laid out perfectly!
So I did the grub-mkconfig..... And rebooted.
But it wouldn't boot!
I started to dig around the Arch wiki and read it is a good idea to start out in UEFI mode and go into the install media and proceed. So I tried this in a VM. The Arch install media would not start in UEFI mode. So I just came to the conclusion that there is something I am missing. Either in GRUB or something I don't understand about my laptop.
I installed Fedora 21 in a VM out of UEFI mode and then again where I started out in UEFI mode. Starting out in UEFI mode did seem to make a difference. I just gave up on my laptop and installed it back with bios and no UEFI. I'm going to dig around and see if I can find what I'm doing wrong.
Could it boil down to not being able to start out in UEFI mode and then switch back into UEFI mode after install? I highly doubt it. There is just something I'm missing..
Marking this as solved. Thanks everyone.
Edit:
Starting out in UEFI mode made the difference! I just wasn't being patient with my VM. Starting out in UEFI mode and then performing the install makes the difference! After following that process I can boot into Arch using UEFI!
Also, I mentioned I couldn't get Arch install media to start in UEFI. That was my fault. When i created my usb i didn't make it a UEFI bootable device! So I would go into my boot options and I would see UEFI but my usb only showed in the legacy list.
Last edited by stevenmw (2014-12-18 20:47:57)

Can't send mail when using mobile broadband

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Installing Arch using larch-8 from LiveCD to HD

Hi there,
as you can see from the subject, my problem is so, so easy... but really, I can't understand how to do it. What I supposed to do? Using larchin-archin? I can't find 'larchin' on my LiveCD, neither from terminal.
For the rest, my LiveCD distro works fine, really fine... I love it, I want it on my HD I can do whatever you want, I can format the whole disk, install arch and then copy all my folders from the CD, I really don't know: I read the documentation, I read topics on this forum... sorry for the newbieness of that question
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Maybe you should read more carefully and slowly
Installation to hard disk
The larch hard-disk installer [b]larchin[/b] may be used to install Arch Linux to hard disk (or similar). ***+ Or, at least it will be possible to use it when I have updated (rewritten?) it for larch-8. -*** [b]larchin deals with partitioning and formatting of hard drives, placing Arch Linux (primarily a copy of the live system on which it is running) on the newly formatted partitions, and installation of a bootloader.[/b]
As mentioned above the main approach to Arch installation covered by larchin is to copy the contents of the live system to a hard drive. Those (few) bits peculiar to the needs of a live system are removed and the result is a completely normal Arch Linux installation. I should perhaps mention the file 'delarch' in the 'larch/data' directory on the boot medium). This script (if it exists) is run at the end of the installation and allows custom installation actions to be performed (the main reason for its existence is to allow features of the live system to be removed, because they would be out of place in a normal installation).
'Live' installation to hard disk
This is sometimes called a 'frugal' install and means that the system as it is (compressed, running in an aufs file-system) on the USB-stick or CD is installed as a live system to a hard-drive partition. This might be useful if you want to run from a flash device, for example, as it minimizes write operations to the device (normal access is read only). This is actually no different from copying a larch system to a USB-stick, so the normal copying procedure can be used.
You should see the config inside your profiles, also the overlay options before you can do an install to HDD.

[SOLVED] Trying to install Arch Linux from harddisk using /dev/sda2

Hi
I'm trying to install Arch using my swap partition, following this wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ha … stallation
What I've done:
Downloaded ISO: archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686.iso
Command: swapoff /dev/sda2
Command: fdisk /dev/sda and changed the system type to 83 (Linux) on /dev/sda2
Now it looks like:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00017e5b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1060289 530144+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1060290 3164804 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3164805 105579179 51207187+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 105579180 488392064 191406442+ 83 Linux
It complained about device was busy, but it still seemed to have changed the system type, so I did partprobe as it wrote.
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
Syncing disks.
[root@swamp ~]# partprobe
<no output>
Next I did:
[root@swamp ~]# dd if=archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686.iso of=/dev/sda2
327680+0 records in
327680+0 records out
167772160 bytes (168 MB) copied, 4.3025 s, 39.0 MB/s
[root@swamp ~]# mkdir /mnt/sda2
[root@swamp ~]# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
mount: warning: /mnt/sda2 seems to be mounted read-only.
[root@swamp ~]# ls -al /mnt/sda2
total 150466
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 240 May 16 15:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 5 01:40 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 556 May 16 15:52 boot
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8192 May 16 15:54 overlay.sqfs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 154058752 May 16 15:54 root-image.sqfs
And unmounted it again.
The wiki page says to type: fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck, but I get no such file while trying to open sda2fsck.
[root@swamp ~]# fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda2fsck
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Can I ignore the above and continue modifying grub?
Thanks :-)
Last edited by valvet (2010-11-08 14:49:07)

fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck makes no sense because /dev/sda2fsck is not a deivce. If the wiki says that, then it is wrong. It's only doing a fsck anyway so probably not really needed. If you are just formatting th swap partition then use, mkfs.ext{234}.
edit:
from the wiki
# fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sda2: 243/78936 files (8.2% non-contiguous), 310519/314880 blocks
The first like should just be
# fsck -f /dev/sda2
Last edited by sand_man (2010-11-05 06:46:01)

Install Arch on five clients using ssh?

Hi all,
We are trying to install arch on five machines using ssh for our clusters lessons, using VirtualBox. We have arch installed on a machine called "Master" and from this we are using PXE server to load Arch (core) iso on the clients. PXE runs fine but for our purpose we have some troubles.
First of all, we need to boot arch directly, without "Options screen" (screen where you can choose between Load arch, load another OS, reboot, etc...), we NEED to boot arch without user intervention. Then, we need to run up ssh server automatically (maybe parsing any option on PXE config file). And the last issue is to login on client machine as root.
If we run sshd and allow to connect giving permissions on /etc/hosts.allow file and then try to login on client from Master as root, we can't do this because root has no password but ssh requieres it, this is a problem.
In short, we need at least to solve this problems:
* Load arch image directly, skipping load screen.
* Run sshd on startup and allow access
* Be able to login as root from our "Master" machine
Any idea of that? We are thinking about to make an image of our Master machine and use it to offer with PXE, but I think this is a bad idea because client machines has not partitions and our fstab file will try to mount filesystems and this is a problem.
Thanks for your help, god will be grateful for it and kill no more kittys and sorry for the brick!
Last edited by Sepho (2010-12-02 20:56:27)

OK after my 4th attempt, i got it
My initial situation
fdsik -l (GPT table format)
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee GPT
/dev/sda2 26 36747 294963432 af HFS / HFS+
/dev/sda3 * 61682 77826 129678336 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 36747 61438 198331055 83 Linux
So, I had Ubuntu running on sda4 (ext4).
What I did
1. Installed rEFIT on Mac OS X, and after two reboots it showed up.
2. In the rEFIT menu, Synchronized with the Partition tool my MBR and GPT table.
3. Opened Gparted on an ubuntu live cd, in order to format my ext4 partition
4. Installed Arch using the normal installation procedure, but I skipped the partitioning section, I did only the file system mountpoints step, selecting my sda4 partition.
5. Installed grub (not grub2) on /dev/sda, the mbr (not /dev/sda4), and activated the windows section in menu.lst
6. After reboot, I selected from rEFIT the Windows logo (linux logo doesn't work), through the windows logo i get in the standard grub menu, where I can select Windows or Arch!
Now I'll remove rEFIT and boot trough normal mac os x's bootcamp tool. (if you select windows you get in the grub menu)
Hope this helps someone!

Mobile Broadband Activation - my country is not featured in the list

Hi my unknown friends. I assembled a modem to my W530 and during instalation of the "Mobile Broadband Activation" application I was asked to "select the country where I was located". Unfortunate I currently live in Iceland but Lenovo does not seem to know this country, to which they sell so much of their stuff and have they authorized service and shop there, even existed and did not deign to place it on the list. They even did not bother to put there an option like "other". What should I choose to properly and correctly complete my installation process? Thank you in advance.
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[SOLVED] Wiki page for GPT disks and booting arch using UEFI

Hi guys, I am new to archlinux. I installed archlinux x86_64 just yesterday and I like its customisability. I also like arch wiki. Nowhere else have I seen such extensive documentation, especially about things like HAL, UDEV etc. with proper instructions. Thanks to all archers.
I have installed Archlinux x86_64 in my Dell India Studio 1537 laptop along with Windows 7 Professional x64. Both the OSes boot in UEFI-GPT setup (my UEFI is tianocore.sourceforge.net EDK DUET UEFI64 firmware booting from USB). I boot Archlinux using my own compiled grub2-bzr compiled for both BIOS and UEFI-x64. I have a 1 MB BIOS Boot Partition as required by grub2 for BIOS-GPT booting. My Archlinux system can boot both from bios and from uefi, while Windows can boot only using UEFI.
The official Archlinux installation guide talks about only MBR (or msdos disklabel) partitions and booting from BIOS based systems. With 2TB drives becoming common place and UEFI being implemented (search for Phoenix SecureCore Tiano's 1 second POST operation), I think a proper wiki page describing differences between MBR and GPT, why GPT is better, how to setup arch to boot from GPT. Another page describing steps to setup arch to boot from UEFI (either as a separate page or as an extension of GRUB2 wiki page) is also needed.
Some details regarding Pure GPT (not a Hybrid GPT/MBR setup) and/or UEFI setups :-
Partitioning tools -
GNU Parted for filesystem related tasks
GPT fdisk tool - http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ , http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ , pacman -S gdisk (in extra repo) - for non-filesystem related tasks
util-linux-ng fdisk does not support GPT disks
Bootloader - GRUB2 - vanilla grub-legacy does not support GPT and does not support UEFI (Fedora's patched grub-legacy does support both GPT and UEFI) and syslinux does not support GPT (I may be wrong here - seems a gptmbr of syslinux does help in booting from gpt but not sure).
For GRUB2 - Need BIOS Boot Partition to embed GRUB2's core.img in GPT disks - size about 1 MB max - no filesystem
In GPT fdisk partition type code - EF02
In GNU Parted or GParted - bios_grub flag on
For UEFI-GPT booting this special partition is not needed as no embedding takes place. This is needed only in case of BIOS-GPT booting.
Incase of custom kernel configuration - enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION for GPT support
CONFIG_EFI for UEFI support (for UEFI even above option required)
CONFIG_EFI_VARS for UEFI Runtime Variables support (optional)
Note: Although GPT is part of UEFI specification, a UEFI system is not needed to boot from/use GPT. BIOS based GPT booting is possible with GRUB2 or Fedora's patched grub-legacy (but not vanilla grub-legacy provided by archlinux). It is also possible to boot Linux in UEFI-MBR setup (again using grub2) but I have not tried it.
Even without UEFI and less than 2TB harddrives, GPT based partitioning has many advantages - secondary GPT header and Partition table, CRC32 checksums. Unique Disk GUID and Filesystem-independent Unique Partition GUIDs, multiple primary partitions (default is 128 partitions, but it can be changed). The only problamatic OS is Windows which does not allow GPT booing unless one has UEFI based system. It allows only UEFI-GPT or BIOS-MBR setups. In linux it just depends on how the bootloader is configured - not a problem with grub2.
I also propose that incase of Auto-prepare Hard Drive, the installer default to GPT for "archlinux only" installs ( ie no dual-boot or triple-boot etc.).
I did not use the official archlinux iso but used archboot 2010.04 R3 as it gave an option of installing to GPT and also provided GRUB2 during bootloader install. I have never edited any wiki page before, thats why I request some one else to start a wiki page with the information given above.
I don't know whether this is the right place, but any Windows (Vista or 7 x64 versions) and Linux dual-boot user who has UEFI-based system with GPT partitioning and wants to get rid of Hybrid MBR setup (to boot Windows) can follow this post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofive … hp/t186440 (outside this forum) - this link describes the way to make Windows boot natively in UEFI-GPT setup. After doing this one can install arch using GRUB2 compiled for UEFI x86_64, and Windows will also see
Last edited by skodabenz (2011-01-30 19:32:48)

Welcome to arch, skodabenz! Offering documentation on third post - all thumbs up
You could start the wiki page in your user-space with what you have, and then invite others to join working on it. Just register a wiki account, navigate to the page you want to start, for example:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:skodabenz/GPT
and click on "edit this page".
As noted in the other thread, arch's legacy grub is patched for gpt support. I don't know about UEFI, but you can always open a bug report asking for the patches from fedora to be included.
edit: the page from Rod Smith is a great resource. I was absolutely terrified at first by all this screwed up GPT/MBR stuff when I tried triple-booting Arch, Win and OS x, but he really does a great job explaining what it is all about.
Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-21 15:44:08)

Installing arch without usb or cd

Hey all,
I'm trying to install arch using only my hd, is this possible?
So far I made a small partition, put the install media on there using dd and tried to boot it using grub(v2).
I however, don't know anything about grub, and I didn't get it to boot, so how do I go about this?
Thanks a lot for your time!

In answer to the thread title (without regards to your post) Two techniques come to mind. Remove the drive, put it on another system, install Arch to the drive on that other system, and move the drive back. The other solution is to use a PXE environment (assuming your system can boot from a network), and set up a DHCP server and a TFTP server on another computer and boot as a thin client.
With regards to your post, how did you get grub and the iso image on to the drive without a usb or cd? Does grub come up at all? Or does the BIOS carp about not having a boot media? Is it a BIOS machine or EFI?

Skype on mobile broadband

Hi all - I recently started using mobile broadband with Optus. I'm running OSX 10.5.8 on a laptop.
I just tried to video chat and it didn't seem to be connecting.
It then showed a message which said - no proxy found.
Also, when I select the accounts tab and scroll down to Skype Access (Wifi) is says:
"Your current wifi network Optus ... does not support skype access. Please try another available public network. Tip: Skype access doesn't work with private or closed...". And it ends there.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
David

MichaelFerro wrote:
When using app Skype on phone am I getting charged in any form even tho it Skype to Skype video call?
You wouldn't be charged by Skype, as a one-on-one video call between Skype users is free. You could be charged by your mobile phone carrier, depending on your data plan and whether or not you have exceeded any daily or monthly limits. If you are doing this while you are off your mobile phone's home network (roaming), you would almost certainly be charged by your mobile phone carrier for the data usage. You would need to review your mobile phone's plan, or contact your mobile carrier for details on potential charges for data usage from your phone. Using WiFi instead of a mobile network for your Internet connection would let you avoid possible charges from the mobile carrier, although you may have to pay to access hotspots depending on where you are.
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While I agree about the limitations, they do have reasons to limit the access to data over the mobile network... Data over the mobile network does cost more, because it requires more investment and is much more limited in capability than the fixed network. With the new 4G and 4GX capabilities, a lot of towers would be able to handle increased data allowances on Mobile data, in the same way that the new plans provide the higher allowance for Mobile Phone plans, however I highly doubt that it will be significantly cheaper if they do change the plans... more likely the prices will be pretty much the same but with different allowances or something... I know one of the moderators did hint at new plans being in the pipeline, at least for residential customers, and if they increase those, no doubt the business ones will also increase... however, when and what actually is going to change is yet to be seen. But as PP has said, the erratic nature of the NBN roll out is the greatest enemy of private investment...

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I just upgraded to a DROID Incredible and want to tether my device and use Mobile Broadband. The problem is I have a MacBook with OS X 10.5.8.
Is it posiible to tether the Incredible to the MacBook? If so, how do I do it? The software that came with the phone was for Windows. I have AccessMgr on my Mac as I used to tether an LG Env3.
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