PdaNet tethering w/iPhone and Ubuntu Working!

[RedPenguin]

Thank you so much, I'm thinking that I had to do a huge iTunes + PdaNet Desktop install inside wine, but now it's just two simple commands.

I love this, because often in college I'm having class in a room disconnected from Internet, and the computers have no hard drive.

So what I do now is, I run Ubuntu off USB, then simply hooked up my iPhone, so now using two USB devices, I have a complete OS + Internet.

Also, I have no phone service on my iPhone, so it's just using the school's WiFi.

EDIT: Also, thanks again for your Firefox Disable IPv6 tip, because at first, it was going slower than dial-up, but once I did that, it went nice and fast, like broadband, so to speak.

Actually, even though the OS + Internet are both USB in my case, it seems to go faster, than Windows on a normal hard drive + PdaNet. I guess Linux will always be faster, LoL.

[puzzler995]

This is Awesome!!! The only bad thing is that after the trial ends PdaNet will only connect to http:// not https:// so this doesn't work with Facebook or Gmail.

[rewolfgz]

It's working now! Fantastic.

This is exactly what I am looking for!

[poisson37]

Just simply amazing!

Thank you very much, you made my year!

[iomz]

Wow what a smart tweek! Thanks a lot now I can be online anytime anywhere without losing extra battery life!

[hkyork2064]

when i type umux2007.py, i get this:

york@york-laptop:~$ umux2007.py
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] Log opened.
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] Traceback (most recent call last):
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] File "/usr/local/bin/umux2007.py", line 88, in <module>
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] fd = connect_to_usbmux(2007)
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] File "/usr/local/bin/umux2007.py", line 55, in connect_to_usbmux
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] lmux = CDLL('libusbmuxd.so.1')
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 353, in __init__
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
2010-04-04 14:53:52+0800 [-] OSError: libusbmuxd.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
york@york-laptop:~$

any idea?

[Shutter4U]

You guys know you can use internet tethering via the USB cable, right?

I got it to work on my (non-jailbroken) iPhone 3g by doing this:

1) go into System->Preferences->Network Connections in Ubuntu
2) in the "Wired" tab, click "Add"
3) Give the new connection a friendly name
4) enter the MAC address of your iPhone in the field that asks for it

- you can get this address from your iPhone:
- goto Settings->General->About and and scroll down to "Wi-Fi Address"
- the "Wi-Fi Address" is the MAC address

5) click checkboxes for "connect automatically" and "available to all users"
6) click "Apply" then "Close"
7) connect your iPhone and it should automatically connect. make sure "internet tethering" is enabled on your iPhone first, of course

[FuManShu]

The problem with that solution is that in the US, we don't have the option of enabling tethering on firmware versions above 3.0.1. Even at 3.0.x, you have to use a custom mobileconfig file to get an option to allow tethering. That's why I started this thread is so that those stuck in the US with AT&T as their carrier can continue to use PDAnet to tether their phones to their Linux systems.

[Lonoki]

Hi,

everything is working just fine, i'm able to connect my iPhone, in PDANet app it shows computer connected, the umux2007.py command does what it should...
But i'm not able to transfer a single byte.... In PDANet it says:
USB Connection
Bytes 0/0
DNS Lookups: 0
Connections: 0
.
.
.


i have internet tethering and also 3G turned on and i was able to connect via wi-fi but it was pretty unstable so i'm trying this. I have iPhone 3GS 3.1.2, PDANet 1.61 registred and Ubuntu 9.04.... any clues?

[FuManShu]

You're almost there. You are just using the wrong command. Instead of "umux2007.py", use "sudo pon umux2007" (without the quotes and note that there isn't a .py extension on the last part.). That should get you going.