Comments on: Tethering your HTC Magic Android Phone in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

By: James

James — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:31:44 +0000

Great, glad you got it sorted and thanks for posting the information back here!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:39:34 +0000

Ok nevermind — I got it working. I found another blog talking about how to get this setup and they used the 91-android.rules files. They also had two additional options in the rules file (SYMLINK and OWNER). When I added those values into my rules file, everything works now!!!

An example is below, just replace yourUserName with the value of your user in Ubuntu.

SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ATTRS{idVendor}==”0bb4″, SYMLINK+=”android_adb”, MODE=”0666″, OWNER=”yourUserName”

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:00:09 +0000

Doesn’t seem like a routing issue — the default gateway is still the same. I’m wondering if it’s actually caused by my version of adb? I seriously doubt it but the instructions on the azilink site specifically mention to use “ADB from the 1.1 or 1.5 Android SDK or from the download section”. I’m not using the 1.1. or 1.5 SDK because they don’t appear to be available any longer. Thus, I’m copying the adb binary out of the latest SDK. Could this be an issue?

It’s really bizarre because adb recognizes my phone and will even transfer over the .apk file and install the azilink application. When I start it up and then fire up openvpn, the status on the phone changes to “connected to host” but I can’t reach anything and the bytes received/sent/total all remain at 0.

This is frustrating. I also found it interesting that my post from the android forums showed up here in your comments. I was hoping someone there might know what was going on but so far — no such luck!

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:44:54 +0000

Hi Brandon – hmm it could be a routing issue, perhaps they changed the nameserver IP address since I wrote this (i.e. the one you put in /etc/resolv.conf). As I don’t have an HTC Evo (still on contract with my Magic!) I’m probably not that useful, but perhaps try doing an “ifconfig” to find the gateway IP address when you’re connected, and put that IP address in /etc/resolv.conf instead of the 192.168.56.1. Sorry I can’t be of more help!

By: Froyo (Android 2.2) update disables USB tethering - Android Forums

Froyo (Android 2.2) update disables USB tethering - Android Forums — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:22:29 +0000

[...] Froyo (Android 2.2) update disables USB tethering Just FYI my co-worker has upgraded his Evo to run Froyo today. The update takes quite a while to execute so be patient, but one thing I noticed was that the USB tethering no longer works. On my phone (still running 2.1) I can plug in the USB cable, enable the 4G radio, and then go to Menu -> Settings -> Wireless & networks and click on the "Internet sharing" option. Once I do this, my computer automatically picks up the new USB device and can use it for internet access (it shows up as "usb0" in my ifconfig on Ubuntu 10.04). Note that this USB tethering ONLY works when the phone has a connection to the 4G network, otherwise tapping the "Internet sharing" option will produce an error 67 message. I tested on my co-worker's phone after he upgraded to 2.2 and found that: 1) The "Internet sharing" option has been renamed to "USB tethering" 2) Tapping the "USB tethering" option will immediately disconnect your phone from the 4G network. Consequently, this means that you cannot tether. Anyone else notice this issue after moving to Froyo? I have downloaded the update but I haven't applied it yet (for this and other horror stories I have heard). If you do lose the ability to perform USB tethering after the upgrade, have you been successful with tethering the Evo to a Linux machine? I have tried these two tutorials and been unsuccessful: Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled: How to Tether your Android to Ubuntu(or Fedora) GNU+Linux for Internet Connectivity James Titcumb Blog Archive Tethering your HTC Magic Android Phone in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:20:07 +0000

Not sure how the guy above me got this to work with Ubuntu 10.04 and the HTC Evo. I have tried these instructions as well as the (slightly) different instructions posted by Shannon VanWagner (he uses a different name for the rules file, slightly different permissions, and also passes in the –config switch when starting openvpn with the azilink.ovpn file). Neither of them work with my Evo.

The connection says that it’s established on both the phone and in terminal, but I can’t actually reach any sites. Any idea what I should do to troubleshoot?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:53:23 +0000

Works w/ HTC Evo 4G and Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks!

By: Shannon VanWagner

Shannon VanWagner — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:26:25 +0000

I created a simple script to set this up. The script also creates an icon on your desktop to use to launch the connection. Check it out here:
http://www.humans-enabled.com/2009/12/how-to-tether-your-verizon-droid-as.html

By: Uwe

Uwe — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:36:57 +0000

hy
works great on Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit

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By: CyberDutch (Will)

CyberDutch (Will) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:29 +0000

Hi James, Thanks for your response, Yesterday I became root after encountering the described permission restrictions. Today I went through all your instructions again, carefully, step by step and testing results all the time (with root permissions during the whole process). And it works great
Thanks to your very clear step by step instructions. I was able to do this as Linux newby, that tells a lot more about your teaching skills than my learning skills! Thanks!

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:54:09 +0000

Hi Will, after a quick Google, the first result for “adb devices no permissions” was:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/f85a795644e65b59?pli=1

Apparently you have to sudo restart the adb server, although by the looks of things for some reason you’re logged in as root (a security issue, I might add!) so that may not be the issue…

By: CyberDutch (Will)

CyberDutch (Will) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:23:17 +0000

Hi James,
Thanks for your clear and exceptional detailed guide. Unfortunately I was not able to get it working. I seem to have no access from my desktop to my phone. On both the desktop and the google magic (I downloaded azilink via the phone’s browser) everything seems to work a-okay.
But I cannot establish the connection between the desktop and the phone (settings on the phone are as you suggested, but:
root@ubuntu:/opt/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# ./adb devices
List of devices attached
???????????? no permissions
or
root@ubuntu:/opt/android-sdk-linux_86/tools# ./adb forward tcp:41927 tcp:41927
error: insufficient permissions for device

Any further suggestions? Your help is appreciated! Thanx,
Will

By: SK

SK — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:57:03 +0000

Works great on Droid and Ubuntu 9.10, thanks. Now if I could get through my Cisco VPN I’d be golded. vpnc-connect gives me this message:

TYPE := { vlan | veth | dummy | ifb | macvlan }
SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
vpnc-connect: quick mode response rejected: (ISAKMP_N_UNEQUAL_PAYLOAD_LENGTHS)(30)
this means the concentrator did not like what we had to offer.
Possible reasons are:
* concentrator configured to require a firewall
this locks out even Cisco clients on any platform expect windows
which is an obvious security improvment. There is no workaround (yet).
* concentrator configured to require IP compression
this is not yet supported by vpnc.
Note: the Cisco Concentrator Documentation recommends against using
compression, expect on low-bandwith (read: ISDN) links, because it
uses much CPU-resources on the concentrator

By: Staci Elaan

Staci Elaan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:23:21 +0000

Thank you for sharing this terrific guide. It worked great in Ubuntu 9.10 for me. I had long since given up on tethering.

By: James

James — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:45:24 +0000

Hi David, yes please feel free to translate and redistribute the article! All content on the site is under Creative Commons license, so I ask that you license your version in the same way!

See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

By: David Gagnon

David Gagnon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:02:55 +0000

Dude, you saved my life.

Your guide is awesome and I’m gonna translate it to french on my blog (hope you don’t mind)

I’m gonna fix some issues however as I had to run some commands from the sdk/tools/ dir with root access (sudo). Hope you don’t mind. No worries i’m gonna link to your page and give you all the credits!

Thanks again! I’m now writing this from a restaurant where there is no wireless so I’m using your solution! Yay! thanks again!

By: mr.ouija

mr.ouija — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:24:17 +0000

Nice. Thanks for the help, and being able to save the instructions as HTML for offline viewing is class. Cheers!

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By: heavy

heavy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:35:08 +0000

thank you for the introduction

greets heavy from Esslingen germany

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