Tethering questions

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by thecensor

Yes, I do the settings-Tethering and portable hot spots and enable tethering, but nothing

Nothing!?!? That sounds like a problem with your PC. As soon as I enable tethering, I get the noises that hardware has change has occurred.

If you have the option to enable USB tether, then the phone is recognizing it correctly. Try another USB port/cable and maybe different computer.

[thecensor]

oh I do get that sound too, and on the phone it says: USB conected and a button 'turn on USB storage' which I dismiss by pressing the home key, then I turn on USB tethering, but the computer still doesn't get an IP address.

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

Nothing!?!? That sounds like a problem with your PC. As soon as I enable tethering, I get the noises that hardware has change has occurred.

If you have the option to enable USB tether, then the phone is recognizing it correctly. Try another USB port/cable and maybe different computer.

[thecensor]

I installed the tetherxp.inf driver on my XP netbook then turned on tethering on the phone, Device manager says "Android USB Etherent/RNDIS under 'Network adapters' and the netbook gets the good IP address of 192.168.42.17, but I can't ping yahoo.com nor can I surf the web.

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by thecensor

I installed the tetherxp.inf driver on my XP netbook then turned on tethering on the phone, Device manager says "Android USB Etherent/RNDIS under 'Network adapters' and the netbook gets the good IP address of 192.168.42.17, but I can't ping yahoo.com nor can I surf the web.

DNS perhaps?

Can you ping 8.8.8.8? Are you able to ping the default gateway? ipconfig /all will show what is being used for DNS servers.

This is definitely progress tho.

[thecensor]

I can ping both:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 32-B9-22-86-8D-29
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.17
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::30b9:22ff:fe86:8d29%7
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.129
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.129
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.129
fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:27:4
5 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:27:45
PM

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by thecensor

I can ping both:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 32-B9-22-86-8D-29
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.17
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::30b9:22ff:fe86:8d29%7
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.129
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.129
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.42.129
fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:27:4
5 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:27:45
PM

I guess try manually setting your DNS to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. Those are OpenDNS' servers. Not sure why you would need to do that, but that should make the 'net work.

[thecensor]

Ok, now it's working, I can ping yahoo, but I wonder why I don't get the DNS servers automatically. may it have something to do with the fact that it's on Boost??

Hopfuly I'll be able to use it with windows 7.

Thanks for your help. I have some more questions, but I'll post them later...

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by thecensor

Ok, now it's working, I can ping yahoo, but I wonder why I don't get the DNS servers automatically. may it have something to do with the fact that it's on Boost??

Hopfuly I'll be able to use it with windows 7.

Thanks for your help. I have some more questions, but I'll post them later...

Yea, I just wanted to establish that you could. No clue why you needed to put in DNS manually, I don't remember having to do that.

Not sure about Win7 either. Like I said, some dude said he couldn't get it to work, when everyone else said it was fine...

When I jump ship back to HaRET for testing I can try again.

[thecensor]

I have some other questions, but I guess I should create a new thread for them...

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by thecensor

I have some other questions, but I guess I should create a new thread for them...

Uhm, OK. I usually prefer people to ask build-related questions in the build thead, instead of creating a new thread... but whatever floats your boat.