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Re: Tethering and Overclocking?

 

I guess that usb tethering already works, provided that you edit the
NetworkManager config by yourself.

To enable the usb0 interface, see
http://fixeditfinally.blogspot.com/2013/03/enable-reverse-tethering-on-nexus.html
Beware that you have to restart network-manager afterwards to pickup usb0,
see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/touch-preview-images/+bug/1142637


2013/3/3 Daniel Clem <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx>

> Thank you oli! I thought there were already desktop tools for this but
> wasn't sure or how to use them. I'll look into them for research only since
> I don't think I have a computer powerful enough for overclocking.
>
> Have you ever used SetCPU on Android? Its very intuitive. So writing a
> dead simple UI for cpufreq packages with SetCPU as inspiration would be
> very awesome.
>
> God Bless, and looking forward to seeing progress.
> Dan
>
> Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>> Am Sonntag, den 03.03.2013, 02:17 -0500 schrieb Daniel Clem:
>>
>>> So in closing, I feel that clock speed contol should not be a GUI
>>> default app. But should include a simple terminal control with great
>>> documentation so power users or app devs can easily take advantage of
>>> them.
>>
>>
>> you all seem to forget that your user space is a standard ubuntu ;)
>>
>> an interface to control your CPU is provided by the kernel through
>> sysfs, you just need to write the right values to it from a self written
>> script (i bet there are tons out there that you could just adapt) or
>> through one of the already existing apps in the ubuntu archive ...
>>
>> the kernel feature managing your clock speed is called "cpufreq" (we use
>> the interactive governor by default on the images) ...
>>
>> so a simple:
>>
>> apt-cache search cpufreq
>>
>> ... should already give you a bunch of tools .... there also seems to be
>> an indicator-cpufreq package, that might even be the GUI tool you look
>> for (no idea if it works on the phablet UI or with the interactive
>> governor yet, but if it doesnt, just file a whishlist bug on launchpad
>> so the devs are aware (and they will surely fix it))...
>>
>> ciao
>>  oli
>>
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