Droid Tethering for all Operating Systems! (tested in Linux)

bthoward · November 13th, 2009, 02:04 AM

Rooting not required! Amiga, OS/2, and several others need not apply but this will cover most of you. Providing most of you have Windows, Mac, or Linux.

I simply used these instructions:
Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid - Linux Magazine Online

Code:

Only difference is that instead of putting what he did into his file put this:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct} =="0c01", MODE="0666", OWNER="brett"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct} =="0c02", MODE="0666", OWNER="brett"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="22b8", ATTRS{idProduct} =="41db", MODE="0666", OWNER="brett"

Change brett to your username. You may have to reload the rules (or just reboot) before things finally fully take off for you but I'm posting this tethered through my phone using this capability in Ubuntu 9.10 right now.

blazingwolf · November 13th, 2009, 11:47 AM

Very nice find. Thank you.

Ainvar · November 13th, 2009, 12:01 PM

Thanks will try this on my EEE 901 running Ubuntu 9.10

bthoward · November 15th, 2009, 02:40 AM

I wasn't able to get pidgin to connect properly in what little testing that I did. I also can't get vpn access to work properly as network manager isn't managing the connection and therefore wont let you initiate its vpn connections. If you get this stuff please post. Ill try again later but for now meh its there. Kinda worthless for me without vpn but we shall see. All in due time.

aussiedude · November 16th, 2009, 08:55 PM

Unfortunately it did not work for me

I get device not found when I run adb
At first I thought it was because my product id was different (which is 41d9 btw). Changed the rules file to reflect that, no go, even after restarting udev and rebooting my system with the droid attached as suggested on the developers page.

NoisufnoC · November 23rd, 2009, 12:08 PM

Nice find. I'll give this a shot with my Dell Mini9 running Ubuntu 9.10

bthoward · November 23rd, 2009, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aussiedude

Unfortunately it did not work for me

I get device not found when I run adb
At first I thought it was because my product id was different (which is 41d9 btw). Changed the rules file to reflect that, no go, even after restarting udev and rebooting my system with the droid attached as suggested on the developers page.

Are you sure that you turned on USB debugging and rebooted? Also if you're using any other USB cables try using the one that came w/ the Droid.

aussiedude · November 23rd, 2009, 07:08 PM

Yep, did all of the above. I ended up replacing the device as it would no longer boot (unrelated to this for anyone concerned it might brick their phone). Will try again.

aussiedude · November 23rd, 2009, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aussiedude

Yep, did all of the above. I ended up replacing the device as it would no longer boot (unrelated to this for anyone concerned it might brick their phone). Will try again.

Ok, so I tried again;
error: insufficient permissions for device

bthoward · November 23rd, 2009, 08:53 PM

I think your configuration file is either setup wrong or you need to restart to make the file run...

aussiedude · November 23rd, 2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bthoward

I think your configuration file is either setup wrong or you need to restart to make the file run...

Rebooted both the phone and my eee-pc, same error. Here is the content of my config file:

Code:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct} =="0c01", MODE="0666", OWNER="graham"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct} =="0c02", MODE="0666", OWNER="graham"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="22b8", ATTRS{idProduct} =="41d9", MODE="0666", OWNER="graham"

bthoward · November 23rd, 2009, 09:25 PM

have you tried running adb w/ sudo privileges?

iefbr14 · November 24th, 2009, 02:40 PM

I encountered the “insufficient permissions for device” problem with Ubuntu 9.10. What worked for me was:

1.on phone:
settings->applications->development; enable USB debugging
start proxoid

2.on laptop (after installing Android SDK and adding 90-android.rules)

cd android-sdk-linux/tools
./adb kill-server
sudo ./adb start-server
./adb devices
./adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080

Change Network settings to manual proxy configuration with HTTP Proxy=localhost and Port=8080

And that worked perfectly.

aussiedude · November 26th, 2009, 01:26 PM

@bthoward Yes I tried running as sudo, same problem

@iefbr14 Thanks, I'll give that a shot when I have an opportunity

bthoward · November 26th, 2009, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aussiedude

@bthoward Yes I tried running as sudo, same problem

@iefbr14 Thanks, I'll give that a shot when I have an opportunity

I'd think that what aussiedude mentioned was a restatement of what was in the article. So yea hopefully you can follow that and get there from here.

The only issues i've got so far is that the connection isn't managed by NM so you can't use its VPN facilities and you can't properly resolve DNS addresses from the console because its trying to go out directly and its not accepting the system wide Proxy setting that I've already configured.

I think that Pidgin wasn't working either.

I find that usually I have an ability to get on from the locations where I frequent so its not all that needed. But one of these days when I really need it I'll move forward and debug that further.

IslesFan · November 26th, 2009, 02:49 PM

Works great in Mac OS X.

Shannon_VanWagner · December 19th, 2009, 06:29 PM

If you're looking to tether your Verizon Droid to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, checkout this page:
Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled: How to Tether your Verizon Droid (as an Internet modem) to Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10

Cheers!
Shannon V.

d-man · December 23rd, 2009, 02:23 PM

+1 for Shannon V.'s suggestion.

azilink works great, and since it uses VPN rather than a proxy, you can use it with any internet applications on your laptop, not just http.

3devious · February 18th, 2010, 10:07 PM

Is the source for that linux method available? I am hoping to recompile it to Xandros to work with my stock EEE PC. Is that a fool's errand?

d-man · February 25th, 2010, 02:29 PM

3devious - The only things you'll need to install on the Linux side is:
1. The Android SDK - it's Java, so no compilation needed
2. OpenVPN - it's open source of course - I don't know about Xandros, but it's probably easier to get the packages for your distro rather than compiling it yourself

Have fun!

3devious · February 26th, 2010, 07:53 AM

I now have a project tomorrow morning.

Thanks.

farmerjohn73 · February 28th, 2011, 03:34 PM

I am using motorola quench xt3 xt502. The above method is failing me. When I connect the phone to pc, it is not recognizing it. I had to buy the usb cable from the service centre, as no cable came with the phone. Is this a reason why my phone is not recognised ?

pls help.

rottenpixies · November 27th, 2011, 08:19 PM

this works with macs: USB Tether No Root Required