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Operating Systems Linux Android Android is Linux (and Java) Post 302460938 by Neo on Friday 8th of October 2010 03:44:41 AM

10-08-2010

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Well, I have had my first Android device for a few weeks now, a Samsung Galaxy S running Android 2.1, and since then, I have only turned on my Nokia phones to retrieve some stored data, LOL. I am not Google, I am a person who uses mobile access for just about everything possible and available, and I think Android is amazing on the Galaxy S. I plan to buy the Galaxy Tab as soon as I can, which I heard was October 22nd from Samsung yesterday, at a price of around $760 USD, around the same price I paid for the Galaxy S.

The main problem I have at the moment is that I have "retired" all my XP machines and am still using OSX PPC on the desktop, so I don't have the right desktop platform to learn to develop some Android apps.

Funny, when I am on the subway, there are always people with many phones, generally over 1/2 are doing email or chatting on their mobiles. I have noticed that the iPhone users are quiet envious of my Galaxy S. The display is both bigger and brighter than iPhone.

That is cool, but more cool is that it is running a version of Linux called Android.

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urndis

URNDIS(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 URNDIS(4)

NAME

     urndis -- USB Remote NDIS Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device ehci
	   device uhci
	   device ohci
	   device xhci
	   device usb
	   device urndis

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   if_urndis_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The urndis driver provides Ethernet access over Remote NDIS (RNDIS), allowing mobile devices such as phones and tablets to provide network
     access.  It is often referred to as USB tethering, and in most cases must be explicitly enabled on the device.

     urndis should work with any USB RNDIS devices, such as those commonly found on Android devices.  It does not support different media types or
     options.  For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE

     The urndis driver supports the "tethering" functionality of many Android devices.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), cdce(4), ipheth(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The urndis device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.7.  The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 9.3.

AUTHORS

     The urndis driver was written by Jonathan Armani <armani@openbsd.org>, Michael Knudsen <mk@openbsd.org>, and Fabien Romano
     <fabien@openbsd.org>.  It was ported to FreeBSD by Hans Petter Selasky <hps@FreeBSD.org>.

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