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arkara

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 35

How can i USB tether with my Android phone?

Is there a way to USB tether with my android phone?
I have it enabled on the phone but i can't seem to be able to do it.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: How can i USB tether with my Android phone?

have you searched the net for this.

there seems to be a lot of stuff available for this:

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q= … =&gs_rfai=

caligo

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2010-01-10

Posts: 79

Re: How can i USB tether with my Android phone?

What phone do you have, and what ROM (the factory default or a homebrew one)? Is your phone rooted? And what setup are you using for network management on your computer?

Using the stock HTC ROMs (1.5 as well as 2.1), my HTC Hero shows up as a USB modem in NetworkManager when USB teethering is enabled on the phone (the same should be the case with other Android phones from HTC with the Sense UI). I'm not sure how it works with other setups, such as WICD, but with NetworkManager it 'just works'.

As far as I know, the same should be the case when the native USB teethering in Android 2.2 is activated. However, not all 2.2 ROMs support the feature, even though the menu option is present -- e.g. the FroydVillain ROM I'm currently using (the same goes for some 2.1 ROMS, such as VanillaEclair pre version 5.0, where the menu option was present but in effect did nothing).  If that is the case, you can try the Android Wired Teether app -- or, if that does not work, Azilink to share your phone's internet connection through VPN.

The azilink soultion is more or less bound to work no matter what, but it takes some effort to set up (i.e. getting ADB running and configuring OpenVPN). There's a quite informative thread on it in the Ubuntu Forums

arkara

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 35

Re: How can i USB tether with my Android phone?

@x33a

I found the one way with the proxoid app (but i would like a native way)
BTW i found one

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Tethering

@caligo I have a rooted HTC magic with CM 5.0.8

But after i stop using my cell and i disc it i can't remove the usbnet module with this message

root@arch:~# rmmod usbnet
ERROR: Module usbnet is in use by rndis_host,cdc_ether

i tried to

root@arch:~# rmmod rndis_host cdc_ether
ERROR: Module rndis_host does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module cdc_ether does not exist in /proc/modules

What are those anyway?