{"id":523262,"date":"2010-04-11T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2010-04-27T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:05:48","slug":"getting-iphone-internet-tethering-working-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523262","title":{"rendered":"Getting iPhone Internet Tethering Working in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve owned couple of mobile phones now, all in increasing number of features. But the one thing that remained common amongst all of them, was the ability to use a tethered Internet connection in both Windows and Linux. Until I got the iPhone, that is. With the iPhone, I could no longer use the iPhone as a modem in Linux. Not anymore.<\/p>\n

I was recently researching about claims that Ubuntu could sync with the iPhone, even the non-jailbroken ones. I was a little skeptical about this. What I found was libimobiledevice<\/a>, and the iPhone Ethernet driver for Linux. I’ll write on libimobiledevice at a later day.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a look at the USB Ethernet driver<\/a>: The iPhone USB Ethernet driver was written by Diego Giagio<\/a>, and is a kernel driver which adds support for iPhone tethering through USB cables. Like libimobiledevice, the driver doesn’t require you to jailbreak your iPhone, so bonus marks here.<\/p>\n

Let’s start on how we can achieve this. This post is written from a Ubuntu\/Debian system perspective, if you’re using some other distribution, the steps should remain same, with the exception of getting the packages via your favourite package manager.<\/p>\n

First: Get the source from Diego’s git repository. If you don’t have git installed, open the terminal and type:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install git-core<\/code><\/p>\n

Once git is installed, get the source for the drivers<\/p>\n

git clone git:\/\/github.com\/dgiagio\/ipheth.git<\/code><\/p>\n

The output should be something like<\/p>\n

\n

sathya@shaman:~$ git clone git:\/\/github.com\/dgiagio\/ipheth.git
\nInitialized empty Git repository in \/home\/shaman\/ipheth\/.git\/
\nremote: Counting objects: 10, done.
\nremote: Compressing objects: 100% (9\/9), done.
\nremote: Total 10 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
\nReceiving objects: 100% (10\/10), 8.11 KiB, done.
\nsathya@shaman:~$<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, compile the pairing program.<\/p>\n

cd ipheth\/ipheth-pair<\/code><\/p>\n

make<\/code><\/p>\n

You should get an output like:<\/p>\n

\n

sathya@shaman:~\/ipheth\/ipheth-pair$ make
\ngcc -Wall -O2 ipheth-pair.c -o ipheth-pair -liphone<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Next, type:<\/p>\n

sudo make install<\/code><\/p>\n

You should get an output like:<\/p>\n

\n

sathya@shaman:~\/ipheth\/ipheth-pair$ sudo make install
\ninstall -m 0755 ipheth-pair \/lib\/udev\/
\ninstall -m 0644 90-iphone-tether.rules \/etc\/udev\/rules.d
\n\/sbin\/udevadm control –reload-rules
\nsathya@shaman:~\/ipheth\/ipheth-pair$<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Compile the Kernel driver:<\/p>\n

cd ipheth\/ipheth-driver<\/code><\/p>\n

make<\/code><\/p>\n

You should get an output like:<\/p>\n

\n

sathya@shaman:~$ cd ipheth\/ipheth-driver
\nsathya@shaman:~\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver$ make
\nmake -C \/lib\/modules\/2.6.28-15-generic\/build M=\/home\/sathya\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver modules
\nmake[1]: Entering directory `\/usr\/src\/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic’
\nCC [M] \/home\/sathya\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver\/ipheth.o
\nBuilding modules, stage 2.
\nMODPOST 1 modules
\nCC \/home\/sathya\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver\/ipheth.mod.o
\nLD [M] \/home\/sathya\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver\/ipheth.ko
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory `\/usr\/src\/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic’
\nsathya@shaman:~\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver$<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The kernel module is ready. Now load the module.<\/p>\n

sudo insmod ipheth.ko<\/code><\/p>\n

We’re all set to try the new driver out. Now connect the iPhone. The iPhone should get detected, as shown in the picture.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

To confirm that the USB Ethernet driver is in use, open the terminal and type<\/p>\n

dmesg | grep iPhone<\/code><\/p>\n

You should get an output like:<\/p>\n

\n

sathya@shaman:~\/ipheth\/ipheth-driver$ dmesg | grep iPhone
\n[22871.808469] ipheth 2-2:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yay! That means the USB Ethernet driver is ready. Lets switch on Tethering on the iPhone.
\n\"Switch<\/p>\n

Lets see what happens. Prior to installing the driver, I would get no notification and nothing would happen. Not now.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

To confirm that we have indeed connected using iPhone let’s have a look at Network Manager connections:<\/p>\n

\"iPhone<\/p>\n

And there you go, iPhone tethering on Linux!<\/p>\n

Notes:
\n1: You _need_ to have tethering working. From what I know, tethering is not officially allowed under AT&T’s plan, so I don’t think this method will work.
\n2: I was unable to compile the pairing program. I’m not sure why the compilation failed. Despite this, the Kernel driver works work. I assume that the pairing program is required if you need Bluetooth tethering.
\n3: I tested this on my iPhone 3G running on iPhone OS 3.1.2. Although mine is a jailbroken iPhone, the author mentions that jailbreaking is not required.<\/p>\n

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