iPhone tethering - ipheth not working

BaconPie · 2010-12-08 14:59:15

I'm having the same issue too; dhcpcd times out.

I used to have tethering working as apple intended through the USB but since the update (to iOS) it no longer works/appears in settings. Because of this I tried MyWi from cydia today and I can't get either Wifi tethering or USB working.

dmesg | tail -n 2
usb 1-4.1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
ipheth 1-4.1.2:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached

An interesting thing is that it used to 'mount' the phone as the network device wwan0, not eth2.

Also, after leaving it a while and checking dmesg again:

dmesg | tail -n 3
usb 1-4.1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
ipheth 1-4.1.2:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
eth2: no IPv6 routers present

The WiFi works on Windows and OS X.

Edit: After installing TetherMe, normal tethering works correctly again (but still with eth2). However I am still getting a time out with dhcpcd...

Last edited by BaconPie (2010-12-08 19:46:54)

gsarkis · 2011-01-18 13:02:51

Hi I'm having the same problem (DHCP timeout with iPhone 4), but only on kernels newer than 2.6.35-* on Gentoo. To get the iPhone 4 working with kernel 2.6.35, I compiled the ipheth driver package using the sources from Ubuntu 10.10 since they include patches to recognize the iPhone 4.

Last edited by gsarkis (2011-01-18 13:03:20)

ELWisty · 2011-01-25 16:33:31

gsarkis wrote:

Hi I'm having the same problem (DHCP timeout with iPhone 4), but only on kernels newer than 2.6.35-* on Gentoo. To get the iPhone 4 working with kernel 2.6.35, I compiled the ipheth driver package using the sources from Ubuntu 10.10 since they include patches to recognize the iPhone 4.

Sorry for my ignorance, but how would I compile the ubuntu 10.10 ipheth driver package on Arch? It probably won't work for 2.6.37, but thought I'd try anyway.

Last edited by ELWisty (2011-01-25 16:34:13)

gsarkis · 2011-01-26 16:36:19

@ELWisty

I created an Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machine and got the sources using the following command:
apt-get source ipheth
Then, I copied the files to my Gentoo box.

I went into the ipheth-driver and ipheth-tools directories and ran 'make install'. In Gentoo, you compile your own kernel so I already had the kernel sources (required to compile ipheth-driver) and made sure that the kernel bundled ipheth driver was not compiled.

Tethering should work now, just make sure that udev rules have been reloaded, a reboot would do this, so would 'udevadm control --reload-rules'.

ELWisty · 2011-01-26 17:11:24

gsarkis wrote:

@ELWisty
I created an Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machine and got the sources using the following command:
apt-get source ipheth
Then, I copied the files to my Gentoo box.
I went into the ipheth-driver and ipheth-tools directories and ran 'make install'. In Gentoo, you compile your own kernel so I already had the kernel sources (required to compile ipheth-driver) and made sure that the kernel bundled ipheth driver was not compiled.
Tethering should work now, just make sure that udev rules have been reloaded, a reboot would do this, so would 'udevadm control --reload-rules'.

Thanks for the help here, appreciated. I happen to have Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook, so can skip the virtual machine part, too.

ELWisty · 2011-01-27 16:08:42

In the meantime I decided to go back to 2.6.36 (just the basic kernel for Arch as always, nothing compiled by myself), but tried the Ubuntu sources. Make install for ipheth-driver gives:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/build M= modules_install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.36-ARCH'
cp: cannot stat `/usr/src/linux-2.6.36-ARCH/modules.order': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [_modinst_] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.36-ARCH'
make: *** [install] Error 2

Anything to be done here?

Last edited by ELWisty (2011-01-27 16:09:26)

fester · 2011-02-19 22:38:52

I still cannot get an IP from my iphone. I have a 3G with iOS 4.1. Is this getting looked at?

Pierluigi · 2011-02-20 11:06:19

fester wrote:

I still cannot get an IP from my iphone. I have a 3G with iOS 4.1.

Me too. iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1

dborca · 2011-02-22 16:01:52

I pushed a fix at https://github.com/dgiagio/ipheth
Get the new code, build, replace module in /lib/.../ipheth.ko, depmod -a, rmmod ipheth, modprobe ipheth.

If you want to patch directly into your kernel tree, here it is:

@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
 #include <linux/usb.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
+#undef NET_IP_ALIGN
+#define NET_IP_ALIGN 2
+
 #define USB_VENDOR_APPLE        0x05ac
 #define USB_PRODUCT_IPHONE      0x1290
 #define USB_PRODUCT_IPHONE_3G   0x1292

cryptix · 2011-02-23 21:29:40

I'm happy to say, the fix works like a charm.

[root@ceeP ~]# /lib/udev/ipheth-pair 
[root@ceeP ~]# dhcpcd eth1
dhcpcd[27307]: version 5.2.10 starting
dhcpcd[27307]: eth1: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[27307]: eth1: offered 172.20.10.2 from 172.20.10.1 `cryPhone'
dhcpcd[27307]: eth1: acknowledged 172.20.10.2 from 172.20.10.1 `cryPhone'
dhcpcd[27307]: eth1: checking for 172.20.10.2
dhcpcd[27307]: eth1: leased 172.20.10.2 for 3564 seconds
dhcpcd[27307]: forked to background, child pid 27329

Thanks, dborca.

p.s. I build the from ABS as it is to get a KERNELDIR for the module.

fester · 2011-03-03 02:55:13

Thank you so much! This works great!

ict · 2011-03-19 12:10:05

Thanks, this works.
Will it be included in the next kernel releases or should I keep that .ko in a save place?

mauretto · 2011-03-28 11:22:14

Hi all,
I still waiting to work with my Iphone Tethering...
I get and compile last version of ipheth-pair/ipheth-driver as suggest Dborca.
but nothing is changed.
When I attach my Iphone at my laptop, this is the output of dmesg command:

[ 86.833674] ipheth 2-3:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
[ 86.834199] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipheth
[ 86.844348] hdj_probe() unsupported device, idVendor5ac, idProduct:1297
[ 86.844647] usbcore: registered new interface driver hdj_mod
[ 87.457283] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 96.720085] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 96.720105] WARNING: at /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-desktop-2.6.37.1/linux-2.6.37/net/sched/sch_generic.c:258 dev_watchdog+0x1dc/0x1f0()
[ 96.720112] Hardware name: Compaq 610
[ 96.720117] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 (ipheth): transmit queue 0 timed out
[ 96.720122] Modules linked in: af_packet hdj_mod ipheth snd_rawmidi ip6t_LOG xt_tcpudp xt_pkttype ipt_LOG xt_limit edd ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_raw xt_NOTRACK ipt_REJECT iptable_raw iptable_filter ip6table_mangle nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss cpufreq_conservative snd_seq snd_seq_device cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf fuse dm_mod arc4 ecb iwlagn snd_hda_codec_idt iwlcore snd_hda_intel mac80211 snd_hda_codec sky2 cfg80211 snd_hwdep uvcvideo videodev v4l1_compat shpchp snd_pcm iTCO_wdt sr_mod cdrom pci_hotplug pcspkr hp_wmi snd_timer iTCO_vendor_support sparse_keymap sg snd rfkill soundcore snd_page_alloc wmi joydev serio_raw container battery ac preloadtrace ext4 jbd2 crc16 i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit button video fan processor ata_generic thermal thermal_sys
[ 96.720307] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop #1
[ 96.720313] Call Trace:
[ 96.720337] [<c02062a3>] try_stack_unwind+0x173/0x190
[ 96.720352] [<c0204ebf>] dump_trace+0x3f/0xe0
[ 96.720363] [<c020630b>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x4b/0x60
[ 96.720374] [<c0206338>] show_trace+0x18/0x20
[ 96.720387] [<c068d44a>] dump_stack+0x6d/0x72
[ 96.720401] [<c02485a8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xb0
[ 96.720414] [<c0248673>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40
[ 96.720425] [<c05c218c>] dev_watchdog+0x1dc/0x1f0
[ 96.720440] [<c02569c4>] call_timer_fn+0x24/0x120
[ 96.720451] [<c0256c5b>] run_timer_softirq+0xeb/0x200
[ 96.720462] [<c024f12f>] __do_softirq+0x9f/0x1e0
[ 96.720473] [<c0204db5>] do_softirq+0x75/0xb0
[ 96.720496] [<0000000f>] 0xf
[ 96.720502] ---[ end trace 701f6ae250239161 ]---
[ 96.720507] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 97.714034] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 106.720093] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 116.721042] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 126.721044] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 136.721058] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 146.720088] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 156.720012] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 166.720019] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 176.720067] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 186.720061] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 196.720059] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
[ 206.720083] ipheth: ipheth_tx_timeout: TX timeout
mauro@linux:~/ipheth/ipheth-driver>

and no tethering work.

What can I do?
Who can help me?

I have Iphone 4 version 4.3 and OpenSuse 11.4

Thanks

Mauro

Last edited by mauretto (2011-03-28 11:29:11)

ELWisty · 2011-03-28 12:09:07

Alas, not working for me either, with kernel 2.6.37.4-1. Still get dhcpcd timed out as before.

cucho · 2011-03-28 14:41:24

Mauro,

I have the same problem!!!
Opensuse 11.4 Iphone IOS 4.3

ELWisty · 2011-03-29 15:22:14

Yep, upgrading to iOS 4.3, not a good move. USB tethering had worked with iOS 4.2.x in Ubuntu 10.10 which I have on my netbook but the upgrade broke it.

mauretto · 2011-03-30 10:22:07

Oh no!
This sound is not good!
And now?

cucho · 2011-04-15 11:43:52

Same problem, IOS 4.3.2...
Goodbye Tethering "Linux with Iphone"?

mauretto · 2011-04-15 11:53:19

On www.libimobiledevice.org there is write that the last version of libimobiledevice (1.0.6) working fine with 4.3.1 iOS...
Yesterday I had installed Kubuntu 10.10, but the version of libimobiledevice inside that, is 1.0.1.
Asap I'll try libimobiledevice 1.0.6 and I hope that it works...

mauretto · 2011-04-15 18:39:13

Nothing to do...
I'm moved to Ubuntu 10.10, installed libimobiledevice 1.0.6, but it not working...
Why? Why?
Where is the solution?

PS: I know that apple quickly release iOS version 4.3.2...

mauretto · 2011-04-29 08:08:39

I found it!

After install libmobiledevice 1.0.6 (of course) when plug in my iPhone I take a timeout error.
With "ideviceinfo" command (with iPhone plug in and tethering on) it works fine!

Great!

PS: I write this from my linux with tethering!!!

ELWisty · 2011-06-19 14:13:43

Well, how about that, started working for me at last: iOS 4.3.3, kernel 2.6.39, libimobiledevice 1.1.0!

Arch Linux

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