Sharing Your Phone's Data Connection - Huawei Mobile Phones User Manual

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7.2.2 Connecting to a Wireless Network
1. After turning on Wi-Fi, touch
2. Touch Wireless & networks
networks in the Wi-Fi networks section.
3. Touch a Wi-Fi network to connect to it.
• If you select an open network, you will be automatically connected to the
network.
• If you select a network that is secured with Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and
connect to it for the first time, enter the password as prompted, and then touch
Connect. If you connect to a secured wireless network that you have already
used, you will not be prompted to enter the password again unless you have reset
your mobile phone to its default settings.
On the Wi-Fi settings screen, touch Add Wi-Fi network to add a new Wi-Fi
network.

7.3 Sharing Your Phone's Data Connection

You can share your mobile phone's data connection with a single computer via a USB
cable: USB tethering. You can share your mobile phone's data connection with a
number of devices at the same time, by turning your phone into a portable Wi-Fi
hotspot.
7.3.1 Installing the USB tethering Driver
If your computer is running Windows 7 or a recent distribution of some flavors of
Linux (such as Ubuntu), you typically do not need to prepare your computer for
tethering. But if you are running an earlier version of Windows or another operating
system, you may need to prepare your computer to establish a network connection
via USB.
Install the USB tethering driver in the following steps:
1. Connect a USB cable to a computer. The computer will automatically recognize the
phone.
2. Choose Start
>
3. Open the drivers folder and then open the usbnet_driver_win2k_xp folder.
Double-click the link DownloadActiveSync.url.
>
>
Wi-Fi settings. You will see a list of detected Wi-Fi
My Computer, and then double-click Mobile Partner.
Settings.
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