Posts Tagged ‘Linux iPhone tether’

Linux iPhone Tethering over Bluetooth

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

A while ago I wrote about how to do a wifi iPhone tether with a SOCKS proxy. Now, I’ll be writing about a Bluetooth tether on 3.0/3.0.1 with a 3G/3GS. To make this work on 3.1, you will need to enable tethering separately, which can usually be done by installing the “Internet Tethering” package in Cydia. This does NOT rely on that uit.sh script floating around, and will work on any Linux system with bluetooth. I used my Fedora 10 laptop for this.

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Linux iPhone Tethering scripts

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Seeing how inconvenient the whole tethering process is, I decided to simplify it with these scripts. You will probably want to keep the SUID bit on these, or use sudo and set it up to not ask for a password for this command. Be sure to replace wlan0 with your wifi interface.
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Tethering the iPhone in Linux

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Since I want to be able to use my Linux laptop on the go without paying for a “tethering plan” or paying for a separate plan, I decided to try tethering my iPhone. Doing this with network-manager is simple.

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