What is Android Tethering?
Android Tethering is a way to access internet on your computer with the help of your Android smartphone. USB and Wi-Fi access point tethering is natively supported from Android Froyo 2.2.
USB tethering
For USB tethering you must have root access to the phone and a USB cable to connect your phone to computer.
Step 1: First of all you will have to enable USB debugging on your Android. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging and enable it. After enabling just reboot your phone.
Step 2: Connect your phone to computer using USB cable.
Step 3: Now enable tethering option from your phone. For this go to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Internet tethering and enable it.
Step 4: Open up terminal on your computer and run the command given below
ifconfig -a
The output will be like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:61:86:B1:E9:33
UP 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)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 b) TX bytes:480 (480.0 b)
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C2:5A:11:8D:43:F5
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)
usb0 is denoting your Android device. If you don’t see it then you will have to load the usbnet module and you can do that using modprobe command as:
modprobe usbnet
Step 5: Now to configure new network device via DHCP use the command given below:
ifconfig usb0 up && dhcpcd usb0
For configuring the new network device using iproute toolkit the command is:
ip link set usb0 up && dhcpcd usb0
For stopping the network sharing the command is:
dhcpcd -x usb0
Netcfg
You can use Netcfg to configure USB tethering, for that just add a static ethernet configuration like:
/etc/network.d/usb-tether CONNECTION='ethernet' DESCRIPTION='A basic dhcp ethernet connection using iproute' INTERFACE='usb0' IP='dhcp'
You don’t need to do any of this or need root access, i’ve had 3 android phones (hero, desire, galaxy SII) and I’ve never had to do any of this. Just plug it in and select USB tethering and it is recognised by ubuntu as an ethernet adapter.
You will need root access to the phone (for old Android versions, Froyo (Android 2.2) and beyond can do it natively). I agree that most Linux distros will recognize it automatically as soon as you enable USB tethering but there are some distros which will not do the same, in that case you will have to follow the steps given above.
ubuntu is not a real distro, just some toy that rarely works right and can’t be updated without destroying the system. just try do apt-get upgrade on a minimally customized system. it’s windows ME all over again.
Fair enough, did you add the bit to the start of the article about 2.2 or do I just suck at reading and comprehension(in which case apologies)
LOL! I didn’t add anything sir. I guess you missed that by mistake :)
My bad, sorry, looks like i need to work on my reading skills. BTW cheers for the guide on the cinamon install trying it right now, pretty slick
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BTW the HTC Hero supported tethering since Android 1.5, hence why i was confused. I didn’t realise it was vendor specific before 2.2 because it seems all factory unlocked HTC’s(and some carrier locked ones) have supported tethering since 1.5 without rooting.
http://insidesprintnow.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/hero_gsg.pdf
Lol, had to look it up for my own piece of mind, i was sure i could remember tethering on my old Hero back in the day.
I keep getting : “The program ‘dhcpcd’ can be found in the following packages:
*dhcpcd
*dhcpcd5
Try: sudo apt-get install
When I try sudo apt-get install dhcpcd i grt:
Package dhcpcd is not available, but is referred by another package, or is only available from another source
E: Package ‘dhcpcd’ has no installation canidate.
And install dhcpcd5 is.
E: Unable to locate package dhcpcd5
use dhclient not dhcpcd:
dhclient -v usb0
Hellio all
We are here 2020
I still have a problem tethering my Samsung note8 to kali linux 4.0.0-kalil-686-pae Debian i686
When I do ifconfig -a
I don’t see usb0
Also if I do
ifconfig usb0 up && dhcpcd usb0
Usb0: error while getting interface flag: no such device
lsusb
Device 007: ID 04e8:6863 Samsung electronics co ( network tethering)