Re: [PLUG] Android - Ubuntu tether without rooting

[Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer@gmail.com>]

For what it's worth, I have a Nexus One, and both wifi tethering and USB tethering work flawlessly in Ubuntu and Windows 7. If I'm not mistaken, it also was a breeze in OS X (10.6 to be specific), but someone else was using my phone to test, so do your own research there. Both Ubuntu and W7 required zero configuration for USB tethering... I just clicked it on, plugged it on, and boom, had internet!

For the record, I am running the CyanogenMod custom OS on my phone, but a coworker recently bought a Nexus One that shipped with Android 2.2, and tethering was a snap for him, too. I believe it's only a bit of a bear for 2.1, as Lee mentioned.

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sprint, the tether and access point options are in the phone, regardless of your plan, but are disabled if you don't have the $30/month option.

I have tethering on my work BB plan, but Verizon's data is so slow compared to Sprint. Plus, getting it to work on Linux with the ppp dialer never seems reliable. I hope easy tether works well.

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Art Alexion

On Aug 20, 2010 11:26 AM, "Lee Marzke" <lee@marzke.net> wrote:
> I'm running Android 2.1 on Samsung Moment ( Sprint ), this doesn't
> have the tether option that
> is in Android 2.2
>
> Yes easytether appears to be a real USB tether, you start easytether on
> the phone, and then run a binary on Ubuntu
> which creates a easytether0 device, they run dhclient easytether0 to
> get an IP. Free at the moment.
>
> I was able to run normal apps as well as OpenVPN (udp) over the link.
>
> I was able to use 3G on the phone or the phones WiFi. I only used it
> for about a hour so far with no
> issues.
>
> Lee
>
>
> On 08/19/2010 04:58 PM, Michael Lazin wrote:
>> Is this true tethering? I've been using proxoid which runs a proxy
>> server on the phone. I've been configuring Ubuntu to use a system
>> wide proxy when I'm on the go. Proxoid is totally free. Do you think
>> easy tether is better?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net

>> <mailto:lee@marzke.net>> wrote:
>>
>> I found this solution to work, and it does not require rooting phone.
>> Requires Ubuntu 10.04
>>
>> http://www.mobile-stream.com/easytether/android.html
>>
>> Lee
>>
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