How to tether iphone on Ubuntu via USB
First you must have tethering enabled in the iPhone, either via your carrier, or via a 3rd party app such as MyWi.
Simply add the corresponding PPA repository, either via your prefered GUI or with the command:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa
The update your sources with your GUI or with:
sudo apt-get update
And the install ipheth-utils via Syaptic, or with the command:
sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils
Ready, next time you connect your iPhone, Ubuntu Lucid will automatically connect.
haha, magic, 3 lines and internet works.
thx
I have followed these steps, but Ubuntu Lucid is not connecting for me. It does not show the iPhone as eth1. I have an iPhone 4. Is it supported in Lucid?
@Mark
I don’t have an iPhone 4 nor info about it, so I can’t tell. Sorry.
@mark
Did you enable tethering in settings/general/network on your iphone,
Works like a charm out of the box, excellent work guys .
Wow, that was too easy. Thank you!!!
Hi,
does this work on Ubuntu 9.10 too?
Thanks
Awesome stufff…. Works really well.. Thnks alot!!!!!
Yes, good job!
It works well.
Is not working for me ran lines in terminal twice and it says evry thing is installed but my Iphone dont show up at all, do yo have to configur networ connections or anyhting else Proxy?
Ubuntu 10.4
Iphone 4 4.0.2
Hey!
I’m in a sad situation where the iPhone happen to be my only connection to the internet. Is there any way to download the ipeth and update from another computer (or boot) and insert it into ubuntu?
Thanks!
/Tottish
@Tottish
yes, you can download the indibidual .deb files from launchpad, then install them with dpkg
Look for them here https://launchpad.net/~pmcenery/+archive/ppa
If it requires some additional packages you can download them too from ubuntu
When I used 10.04 this worked perfect, but upgrading to Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 the thetering doesnt work anymore..
Please help me
@John
ipheth is already in the Maverick repos, simply install it from the ubuntu repos and it will work.
@mexlinux
I ran the commands in Terminal and can see iphath is installed, PPA for Paul McEnery is all there… but no tethering.
I will try to run the commands again.. se if I made a mistake or something.. (I’ll edit the comment if it’s being solved)
Awesome – 3 lines and it works. Using iphone 4 (4.1) and Ubuntu 10.04.
Cheers!
Hello. this worked like a charm in ubuntu, but then i installed Xubuntu 10.10 on my netbook.
and now i just wont work… i have tried uninstalling ipeth-utils and installing it again, but nothing helps. Anyone knows why it doesent work in xubuntu?
it works. than u verry much
How about the other way? Is is possible to make the iPhone use my computer’s Internet connection, via USB? (I don’t have WiFi at home!)
How is it working? I see many people having problems with this and not solved.
wwan0 is down, if I try ifup wwan0 it says
Ignoring unknown interface wwan0=wwan0.
Awesome! Had been searching for days. Thank you so much.
It isnt working, iPod dosent mount. I have ubuntu 10.04 and firmware 4.0.2 please help me.
hello
the 1st one worked, i had to do the 2nt one twice, ant the 3rd one doesnt work for me:
iddo@iddo-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
ipheth-dkms libimobiledevice1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ipheth-dkms ipheth-utils libimobiledevice1
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 57.3kB of archives.
After this operation, 287kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.
why does it abort when i type y?
thank you
@bhuthogg
I can not get my iphone to work with my Ubuntu 10.04 rhythmbox. I went to setting….general….network….. then what. I need to get this working… plz help me
@Shay-Li
this is what mine says and i can’t get anywhere….
keri@dell-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package ipheth-utils
Well, that’s happy. Now if only my hour of googling via phone would have turned up how to accomplish this same thing with android, or the apparently non-existant command for giving me the mac addresses of my usb hardware.