I am sure many people have heard that verizon has asked google to remove tethering applications from their App Store.
Luckily I already had it installed but in case you don’t you can get it from here android-wifi-tether
I am running 2.0.7
In linux, you need to make sure you have this in the kernel config:
Device Drivers --->
[*] Network device support --->
USB Network Adapters --->
[*] Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework
<*> CDC Ethernet support
<*> CDC EEM support
<*> Simple USB Network Links (CDC Ethernet subset)
[*] Embedded ARM Linux links
[*] USB Support --->
<*> USB Modem (CDC ACM) support
<*> USB Wireless Device Management supportAfter you have the kernel configured correctly, I had to modprobe usbnet:
modprobe usbnetThen, NetworkManager on kde show Auto usb0
After I connected, I was able to perform this traceroute to prove it was still working:
# mtr -r -c 5 google.com
HOST: TSPH4GL2 Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 10.10.3.254 0.0% 5 2.9 3.1 2.6 4.2 0.6
2.|-- xx.sub-xx-xx-xxx.myvzw.c 0.0% 5 86.5 78.5 60.3 98.7 14.6
3.|-- ??? 100.0 5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
4.|-- xxx.sub-xx-xx-xx.myvzw.co 0.0% 5 101.7 88.6 80.5 101.7 8.8
5.|-- xx.sub-xx-xx-xx.myvzw.com 0.0% 5 78.0 84.2 75.7 104.2 12.1
6.|-- xx.sub-xx-xx-xx.myvzw.com 0.0% 5 101.3 83.8 72.8 101.3 10.6
7.|-- xx.sub-xx-xx-xx.myvzw.com 0.0% 5 77.7 85.0 77.7 90.2 5.2
8.|-- xxx.sub-xx-xx-xx.myvzw.co 0.0% 5 72.2 82.8 72.2 102.6 11.9
9.|-- GigabitEthernet0-0-0.GW1. 0.0% 5 88.0 85.2 82.6 88.0 2.6
10.|-- 0.xe-3-1-0.XL2.CLE3.ALTER 20.0% 5 87.4 90.9 86.6 101.8 7.2
11.|-- 0.ge-5-2-0.XL4.CHI13.ALTE 0.0% 5 142.0 102.5 87.6 142.0 22.5
12.|-- TenGigE0-5-0-0.GW2.CHI13. 0.0% 5 180.9 109.9 82.3 180.9 40.7
| `|-- 152.63.65.145
| |-- 152.63.66.29
13.|-- google-gw.customer.alter. 20.0% 5 89.4 101.5 82.7 143.8 28.4
14.|-- 209.85.254.122 0.0% 5 94.6 102.3 92.5 113.2 8.8
15.|-- 64.233.174.173 0.0% 5 110.2 101.8 87.1 118.6 12.5
16.|-- 74.125.225.20 20.0% 5 79.2 100.9 79.2 129.1 20.8If you don’t run NetworkManager on gentoo, you should be able to see the device using:
ifconfig -aWhich should return something like:
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:10:72:ab:38:0e
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)You then need to symlink /etc/init.d/net.lo to /etc/init.d/net.usb0
ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.usb0And start the network normally:
/etc/init.d/net.usb0 startYou can then use dhcpcd to obtain an ipaddress:
dhcpcd usb0If it doesn’t work, or you obtain an ip address and are not able to surf the net, first thing to do is reboot the phone and try again. I had an instance where I could ping the laptops ip address but couldn’t ping the phones ip address which is the default gateway. Rebooting fixed it for me.