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 support