Comments on: Tethering android and OSX without root

By: Anonymous

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:33:32 +0000

Thanks!

Works on snow leopard 10.6.5

I just needed to add the “-script-security 3 system” flag to the openvpn call in the script

line 8:
sudo openvpn2 –dev tun \
–remote 127.0.0.1 41927 \
–proto tcp-client \
–ifconfig 192.168.56.2 192.168.56.1 \
–route 0.0.0.0 128.0.0.0 \
–route 128.0.0.0 128.0.0.0 \
–keepalive 10 30 \
–up “$0 up” \
–down “$0 down” \
–script-security 3 system

By: DarkFox

DarkFox — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:54:48 +0000

Works on HTC Desire as well.

Really nice, this means I wont need to root it

By: Krys Wallbank

Krys Wallbank — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:06:42 +0000

AHAHAHAHAH! F*ck you Rogers and your $6/hr pimply-faced tech support that can’t spell Linux, let alone support it. My Android Developer phone is now tethered to my MacBook Pro, despite your best efforts to stop me thanks to this well written and WORKING method of tethering my Android G1 to my MBP!

By: Tarek

Tarek — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:53:00 +0000

I did that and it worked, and after fixing all the errors and actually having it running someone posted on androidcommunity.com that there is a software: pdanet that does all that. I checked it out, and it did work.. very simple and easy too.. so check it out as well:
http://www.junefabrics.com/android/mac.php

By: jecortez

jecortez — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:54:15 +0000

@CKN: It is not an appleScript, it is a bash script. It should be run from the command line. Follow steps 6 and 7

By: CKN

CKN — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:03:18 +0000

Hi there, when I copy and pasted your script into my Mac’s “Script Editor” and attempted to run the script, it found a great deal of syntactical errors including the { and } symbols in various places, and also had an issue with the use of the word “forward” at some point. How do I remedy these problems so I can run the script? Thank you

By: jecortez

jecortez — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:24:06 +0000

@Marvin: scutil must be installed. Try replacing that line with “/usr/sbin/scutil”

@Tai: That is a bash script, use step 6. You are going to need the android development tools.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:25:46 +0000

First of all, thanks for the clear instructions!

But, there seems to be a problem on my Leopard (not SL) Macbook.

First of all an addition to your script: The new openvpn2, version 2.1, requires one to add the following flag to the openvpn2 command:

–script-security 2

After fixing this, there seems to be a problem with scutil:

./androidtether
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 OpenVPN 2.1.1 i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 [SSL] [LZO2] built on Jan 11 2010
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 NOTE: the current –script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 ******* WARNING *******: all encryption and authentication features disabled — all data will be tunnelled as cleartext
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 TUN/TAP device /dev/tun0 opened
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 delete
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can’t assign requested address
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 NOTE: Tried to delete pre-existing tun/tap instance — No Problem if failure
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 192.168.56.2 192.168.56.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 ./androidtether up tun0 1500 1502 192.168.56.2 192.168.56.1 init
sudo: scutil: command not found
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 script failed: external program exited with error status: 1
Mon Jan 11 22:14:55 2010 Exiting

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

By: Tai

Tai — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:06:09 +0000

Thank you for your instruction above…
I have an Hero, and a Macbook.

but I am a new user… and I am not familiar with these writing…
I was only able to comply with your instruction number
2. 3. 4.

I’m not sure if I need Number 5! the android usb driver.
for when I plug in, my mac obviously respond to the USB.

and Number 1, openvpn2 seems a very complex issue…
I opened the appointed webpage,
and there were a bunch of lines of computer writing…
some of which says “deroot”…
I thought this solution wasn’t about rooting the android phone…
so i wasn’t dare to try anything.

besides, I was trying to download openvpn…
and it led to the page at version tracker…

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=download

where the file wasn’t available for download.

As for Androidthether file… Stupid as I am…
I don’t know how to make an executable file… dumb me..

However, I’m not all in vain…
here are two things a dummy in mAC such as I am have found…

1. parallel does respond to SYNC software, subsequently,
my parallel was able to get connected via my HERO.
but that doesn’t answer the question as most of the mac software still can’t get linked…

2. mac computer does respond to android phone usb connection!
I opened the network from system preference, and found that
I can make an android phone connection.

the problem with this is that…inside this android phone connection,
when I press advance button, there are a lot of ways how apple can get connected.
inside the “vendor” option, there wasn’t anything coming from HTC…
i tried literally EVERY single one of them… but none gets me connected.
which is a lot by the way.

I even tried the “generic”… which seems the closest one…
I tried generic mode for the vendor option, and pressed GPRS(GSM/3G)
option for the model. but it doesn’t connect me.

So other than the above instruction which I don’t know how to execute…
if anyone can help figure out which vendor & model format can HTC hero uses.
I suppose this would be a much easier way for HERO to be connected to a macbook with USB line.

thus… look forward to any good news or help. tks a lot