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Using WiFi with an OTG USB cable

Added by Ted Smith over 9 years ago

Would it be possible to use a microUSB OTG cable like this in conjunction with a wireless N USB adapter to use WiFi and circumvent the device's proprietary WiFi resources.


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RE: Using WiFi with an OTG USB cable - Added by Paul Kocialkowski over 9 years ago

USB OTG works on some devices (I9100, I9300, N7000, N7100 as I recall) but there are limitations in terms of available current. It might not be enough for a USB Wi-Fi dongle.
If that was to work nevertheless, you'd need to build the correct driver (ath9k_htc), load it instead of the preinstalled one and hope that Android correctly uses the driver (there are some Android-specific bits that most drivers don't have).

Android does not really do well when it comes to plug'n'play hardware, especially some that replaces hardware already inside the device. Most of Android is static and is not supposed to change at run-time. It is on my roadmap to try and change that, but this is only really relevant on non-mobile devices, such as x86, single board computers, htpc or tv sticks, which Replicant does not target at all currently.

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