On 2015-12-07, luke...@onemodel.org <luke...@onemodel.org> wrote: > On 11/28/15 15:15, Jiri B wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 03:07:15PM -0700, luke...@onemodel.org wrote: >>> I'd like to get an internet connection via my android phone (on >>> tmobile). After connecting the phone via usb and turning on its >>> tethering option, I see the usb info in dmesg, but when I try to run >>> the pppd chat script it doesn't get any response from the phone. >> >> Why do you do this? urndis is like ethernet iface, it is you phone >> which establishes connection and acts as a gateway for your laptop. > > Thanks. It seems the key part I didn't realize was where 'man urndis' > mentions 'man ifconfig', which in turn mentions the hostname.if file: > It seems that I needed to create that file, with one line > saying 'dhcp' in it.
In case it's not clear, that isn't a literal ".if", it's replaced with the interface name e.g. hostname.urndis0 - but it's only used automatically at boot. If you wanted to configure it automatically at runtime you could use hotplugd, though I think most people just run dhclient manually. > But it disconnects after a couple of minutes, with android saying > something about can't connect to data, but maybe that's something to do > with android and I need to get a later cyanogenmod release and see if > that helps, or something else phone-related. (The data plan works fine > w/ the built-in android browser.) It works fairly reliably for me; if you want to isolate the mobile network when testing, you could connect the phone to wifi then connect to that via urndis. That'll help pinpoint the problem.
