Possible to tether with OS X Leopard?

EtherealRemnant · #1 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 11:02 PM

So I run both Vista and Leopard on my PC... but Leopard doesn't have drivers for my wireless (Intel 4965 A/B/G/N).

I pay for PAM on my Sprint plan and I was wondering... any way I can tether my Mogul to Leopard via USB? Life would be much easier if I could get this working. I don't have any idea if I can even get a BT stack for my Toshiba laptop for Leopard... I would doubt it though.

Thanks

EtherealRemnant · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 11:42 PM

What the hell... I swear I posted this in the MAIN forum... mods if you see this, can you move it please?

#3 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 07:54 AM

I tried to tether to OS 10.4 about a month ago with no luck. It would see it, and try to connect but bombed out.

On a side note, what are you using to dual boot? I know how to get OSX on a PC, but every time I try a dual boot config it ether does not work or is too unstable to be of much use.

hrm · #4 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 09:04 AM

search for wifirouter works awesome, turns your mogul into a wifi adhoc network and shares your internet connection to your mac. I use it with my macboo pro all the time. works like a champ. I use it in the airport so I can surf on my mac without having to pay for the airport wifi.

also it's much faster than bluetooth. There is a way to do it with bluetooth, i got it to work...once...but it was a pain in the ***. with wifirouter I turn on the app, select the network on my MBP and surf away.

brianb · #5 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 09:39 AM

I tether to leopard all the time. It's really simple. Make your phone bt discoverable. Then go and search for BT devices within leopard. Setup what it finds as you normally would.

After that, connect the BT device on leopard. Then go into your phone's ICS and select bluetooth sharing, and select sprint pcs for the network. Click connect. It will either connect imediately, or it will request to install another BT device. If it requests to install another BT device, go ahead and complete that.

After all this is done, leopard will remember the BT network device and it's really only a few clicks away to reconnect. I had no problems at all, and it works great.

**bedoig** · #6 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 12:45 PM

As stated above, BT should work fine with Leopard (not so easy with my wife's old G4 running 10.3.9). WMWifiRouter works great too.

For USB, I've used Mobile Stream's USBModem in the past. Haven't tried it with Leopard, but I'd think it would still work.

#7 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 02:58 PM

Odd, I tried the same steps and it would not work on the test Imac we had at work. It saw the device and connected, but it would not use the phone as an Internet device no matter what settings I tried.

May have to give it another try now that others have gotten it to work

hrm · #8 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 09:04 PM

bluetooth is super slow compared to wifi, you'll never be able to take full advantage of the speed your mogul has. Wifirouter is changing over to a pay for software but you can find older pre-release versions that do not expire and work just fine.

Bluetooth bandwidth is SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWW.

meatlocker · #9 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by hrm

bluetooth is super slow compared to wifi, you'll never be able to take full advantage of the speed your mogul has. Wifirouter is changing over to a pay for software but you can find older pre-release versions that do not expire and work just fine.

Bluetooth bandwidth is SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWW.

Huh? I live in Bumfark and I get around 900 down and 200 up tethering through bluetooth on my MacBook Pro. I would say that this is pretty great.

dookie · #10 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 01:04 PM

really it depends on the bluetooth adapter on the computer side...On my older Compaq with Bluetooth 1.2 I couldn't get more than 400kbps down, but 900kpbs via usb...