Comments on: iPhone Tethering on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

By: Mugisha Leonard

Mugisha Leonard — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:22:55 +0000

Thanks a lot…it has worked for me!

By: dunno

dunno — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:08:22 +0000

Unable to mount dunno’s iphone

DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

By: bm

bm — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:56:21 +0000

Ubuntu 11.04 + iphone 3GS. Internet connection works fine on Bluetooth and USB but I’m not able to establish VPN connection (PPTP) to my office server. On wifi all works fine, on ubuntu 10.10 (netbook edition) VPN over iphone was working fine. Any idea? Thanks for help

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:44:35 +0000

Thanks Paul, the updated ipheth module works a treat

By: Danger

Danger — Tue, 17 May 2011 06:47:19 +0000

Karmic 9.10 won’t work because the kernel is too old. Doesn’t detect the iphone as a recognised device. Natty works though. When reconecting I have to remove and re-plug the USB once again (dunno why), but works well, no tricks.

By: Edman

Edman — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:48:34 +0000

I have just spent two hours trying to tether my iphone via bluetooth and usb. Neither worked. Bluetooth is a known bug and USB stopped working in 11. something.

Unable to locate package ipheth-dkms
root@DELLD430:~# sudo apt-get install ipheth-dkms
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package ipheth-dkms

By: vol4ikman

vol4ikman — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:06:01 +0000

after adding repository and updating:
“Unable to locate package ipheth-dkms”

By: Paul McEnery

Paul McEnery — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:39:19 +0000

There is a bug in ipheth driver supplied with 11.04. This has been fixed (we think) upstream by Ben Hutchings (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/3/283).

I’ve just applied this patch to the Github repository and built some new ipheth packages.

Add my PPA repository:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

$ sudo apt-get install ipheth-dkms

This will replace the built-in kernel module - which - with some luck will actually work! I no longer own an iPhone, so I can’t test the fix either.

By: Kartick

Kartick — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:37:15 +0000

My iPhone USB tethering was ok for ubuntu 10.10, but it is not working after upgrading to 11.04. iPhone shows it is connected but no Internet in my laptop

Please help

By: vol4ikman

vol4ikman — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:21:01 +0000

It is not working on ubuntu 11.04!!!!
SOS!!!!

By: Ruprecht

Ruprecht — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:03:21 +0000

Hello all,
i am connected via iPhone 3G now and it works fine.
But i have some details for you:
I have Kubuntu Maverick with default kernel 2.6.35-27-generic on my cheap notebook Asus K52F. I do not have bluetooth, so i have my iphone G connected via USB cabel.
My 3G have Internet tethering enabled as default. After connection nothing happend and `dmesg` returns:
[ 431.041262] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 432.532426] ipheth: ipheth_get_macaddr: usb_control_msg: -110
[ 432.532449] ipheth: probe of 2-1.3:4.2 failed with error -110
[ 432.532497] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipheth

After this i disable Internet tethering on my 3G and disconnect and reconnect it again.
Then i enable Internet tethering and blue screen appears on 3G and Kubuntu have new network device named eth1 instead of wwan0.

Thanx for this tutorial, maybe this information should be usefull for someone.

By: Ruprecht

Ruprecht — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:43:44 +0000

Mark:
If you are using Kubuntu, try ALT+F2, then write command: kdesu dhclient wwan0
and push enter.
kdesu will ask you for you password, type it and enter again.

If you do not have Kubuntu, it meybe also work, but i am not sure, if gnome is using the key shortcut ALT+F2, but you can open application called Konsole (or maybe Console? )

By: Ruprecht

Ruprecht — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:36:56 +0000

Do you realy need restarting iface wwan0?
Can you check using `ifconfig wwan0` if there is any IO address attached to this interface?
If not, try just `sudo dhclient wwan0` if it helps you.
I do not have usb cabel for my iphone3g now and i did not use internet tethering yet, but i will try it tommorow.

Good luck!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:12:10 +0000

Hi, I am very new to this. I have installed as per the instructions above and although my iphone is now recognised, tethering does not work. There is a solution offered above, “I edited /etc/network/interfaces and added these two lines (without quotes):
“auto wwan0
iface wwan0 inet dhcp”
After that I just ran the following command in the terminal:
“sudo ifup wwan0? and it worked..”….. But I am so new I do not follow what needs to be done. Is there any chance someone can let me know in step by step stages (ie. click on this, where u see ‘x’ put that -I mean, I didnt know what a termional window was till yesterday!)
Thx for your help I will get there Im sure but Ive got a HUGE headache at the mo!

By: tasha

tasha — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:02:00 +0000

Hai.. im using Iphone 4. before this my phone have ethernet button..and can connected to my pc..but after i use on my pc..the ethernet button have gone no where from my iphone.. & i try to connected to my pc at office but no ethernet button..

please help me..what happen?

By: pter86

pter86 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:35:17 +0000

Hi guys I followed the tutorial and used simons comments to get things working before but after a fresh install of ubuntu im having trouble. iphone shows tethering but no network detected on laptop!

any ideas?

By: Hemanshu

Hemanshu — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:58:06 +0000

I am having problem with iphone 3G and ubuntu 10.10.
Everything works nice, and my tethering works fine.
But after some random time my iphone restarts.
time is random, sometimes it works for an hour sometime for 10 mins and phone reboots.

anyone else having the same problem?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:40:41 +0000

Hello, i am using an ipod touch 4g on iso 4.2.1 and it is jail broken… i downloaded an app called “mywi 4″ witch gives usb wifi tethering…. and once i plug in my ipod how do i connect it?? ubuntu 9.10 recognizes it as an digital camera…. do i have to update ubuntu?

By: Georgio

Georgio — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:04:42 +0000

It might be worth adding that the Ubuntu (or similar) firewall should be enabled, as you’re directly connecting your Ubuntu box to the internet - as opposed to running behind a NATing router, which is the normal situation for most people. “sudo ufw enable” is the command to run if I remember correctly.

Cheers! And thanks for the article

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:18:22 +0000

Finally got it working!!!
My problem was, that it just didn’t connect to the Internet although I did everything as described in the tutorial.
I edited /etc/network/interfaces and added these two lines (without quotes):
“auto wwan0
iface wwan0 inet dhcp”
After that I just ran the following command in the terminal:
“sudo ifup wwan0″ and it worked.. I don’t know why it didn’t do that on it’s own, but now I got it working.
You can shut the connection down using “sudo ifdown wwan0″
That shuts down the connection but the iPhone still displays that it is tethering the connection… Anybody know a fix for that??