My Tether - Tether over WiFi, USB, and BT.

aonic · 07/07/2009, 10:40 AM

This app allows you to use your Pre to connect to the internet. It allows you to tether over USB, or Bluetooth PAN, and allows you to make your Pre into an WiFi hotspot to share your EVDO connection.

The app handles enabling USBNet on the Pre via the UI, as well as enabling DHCP for tethering without having to ssh in to enable anything.

Now on to the good stuff.

You MUST re-run the install command again if you're running WebOS 1.3.1

Latest version: My Tether 1.5.1 & TetherService 0.5.1

You need root to install this app, but after installing you shouldn't need to root or ssh in to do anything else to make this app work.

Previous versions of this app required webosinternals.services to be installed. This was ok, but it allowed any WebOS application on your Pre to run root commands. To close that "hole" I've made my own service to handle tethering functions.

New In 1.5.1

Fixed to work with WebOS 1.3.1

New In 1.5.0

Removed dependency on webosinternals.services
Added dashboard notifications on status of WiFi Tethering
New Launcher icon by TavisJohn
App remembers last tether option & opens to same one
Cleaned up tether output & general UI to be more user friendly
Security & added robustness in the backend

IMPORTANT: WiFI and WebOS 1.3.1:

Due to the changes in WebOS 1.3.1, maintaining WiFi tethering in this version is a hard task, I'll be announcing updates on that in a few days. For now, DO NOT use any of the packages claiming to fix WiFi in the "Free My Tether." Those packages were designed for WebOS 1.2.1 and WILL break WiFI on your Pre.

Instructions (version 1.5.1):
Root into your Pre and paste this one liner into your terminal:

Code:

wget -qO- http://vz.aonic.net/pre/my.tether.install | /bin/sh

Check here for "Accessing Linux instructions on Windows w/ SDK"

This command will remove webosinternals.services, install the new tethering service, and install My Tether 1.5.0. It will also remove any old versions of My Tether

If you get something like wget: bad address 'vz.aonic.net' in the output of the command then re-run the command. Don't let your Pre go to sleep during this command, and if your Pre is plugged into USB make sure its in "Charge Only" mode.

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Installing USBNet Drivers on Windows:
If you're using USB tethering, you will need to install the usb network drivers on your machine. Instructions are here: pre dev wiki: USBnet networking setup

These USBNet Drivers instructions are very good: http://forums.precentral.net/1791515-post1460.html

Instructions for USBNet on Vista & Vista 64bit by mu7efcer
1. On Pre: in the My Tether program turn on usbnet.
2. Reboot Pre and open My Tether again and turn on DHCP
3. Plug in Pre to USB on Vista
4. In wizard that comes up asking for driver software, I chose ignore.
5. Then I went into the device manager, by right clicking on "My Computer" and selecting "Manage", then clicking on "Device Manager"
6. There was a device called "USB Ethernet Gadget". I right clicked on it and selected "Update Driver Software..."
7. In the wizard that came up, I clicked "Browse my computer for driver software"
8. In the next page, I clicked "Let me pick from a list of deice drivers on my computer"
9. It asked me to pick a type of hardware. I chose "Network Adapter"
10. Under "Manufacturer", I chose "Microsoft Corporation". (Note: this is not the same as "Microsoft")
11. In "Network Adapter", I chose "Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device.
12. Then I clicked Next.

Bluetooth Tethering
The report is that after you enable USB Tethering in My Tether, you can pair your machine to the Pre using Bluetooth PAN and tethering will work over Bluetooth.

nttdemented's experience with BT -- For it to work over BT all I had to do was toggle it on (let it do its thing and reset) pair my netbook (running Win7) to the Phone and then join the computer to the BT PAN network of the Pre and I was golden.

Zyphlin · 07/07/2009, 10:47 AM

Looks great. I know this was a big missing feature for some, especially many coming from Windows Mobile, so its great to see it possible.

TMed_ATL · 07/07/2009, 10:53 AM

Thanks for all your progress on this. this is what i really miss from my instinct

Wifi Works Great pulling 1.8mb at work and 1.28 at home on the download.

Thanks!!!

aonic · 07/07/2009, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TMed_ATL

Am I overlooking the IPK file? or is it net.aonic.my-tether_1.1.1_all.ipk ?

Im not at home right now so i cant check that out anyways

yup, the ipk file is http://vz.aonic.net:8080/~raja/pre/n..._1.1.1_all.ipk

Spunky424 · 07/07/2009, 11:38 AM

i just installed this and i cant turn it on. i keep getting the message that i have to enable usbnet and when i click enable nothing happens. can anyone help me?

hirenpathak · 07/07/2009, 11:44 AM

Do I still need to root in and then install this app through SDK or I can only install this using SDK and don't worry about root??

aonic · 07/07/2009, 11:49 AM

Spunky: did you install it via root or SDK? If SDK, did you also install the shell service?

hirenpathak: You can install via SDK and dont need to worry about root or SSH.

chrissurra · 07/07/2009, 11:49 AM

Thank you so much it works like a charm!

jbg7474 · 07/07/2009, 11:54 AM

I think you may still need the webosinternals part, which you may also be able to install via the SDK.

I personally wimped out when I got to the ToS in the SDK install, which said things about not installing this if you didn't get it officially from Palm. I know Palm hasn't really made much of a move to slam the door on the leaked SDK, but it makes me nervous to install software I'm not supposed to have. It wasn't too hard to gain root access to my Pre following all the instructions on predevwiki. Total process from stock--> root--> tether took me about 1.5 hours.

Thanks again aonic!!!

jbg7474 · 07/07/2009, 11:57 AM

Oh, one more thing: I needed to get the driver for usbnet on my winxp machine. aonic, you may wish to add this to your instructions. Here's a link: pre dev wiki: USBnet networking setup. Follow the instructions at "On Windows XP".

aonic · 07/07/2009, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jbg7474

Oh, one more thing: I needed to get the driver for usbnet on my winxp machine. aonic, you may wish to add this to your instructions. Here's a link: pre dev wiki: USBnet networking setup. Follow the instructions at "On Windows XP".

Thank you, added to the main post

Spunky424 · 07/07/2009, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aonic

Spunky: did you install it via root or SDK? If SDK, did you also install the shell service?

hirenpathak: You can install via SDK and dont need to worry about root or SSH.

i installed via SDK. my pre is rooted. how do i install shell service?

aonic · 07/07/2009, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spunky424

i installed via SDK. my pre is rooted. how do i install shell service?

Same way as you install my tether app. Here is the IPK for the shell service. http://vz.aonic.net:8080/~raja/pre/o...es-0.4_all.ipk

volcom45 · 07/07/2009, 12:08 PM

Will this work on Windows Vista 64bit? Anyone tried?

cell128 · 07/07/2009, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spunky424

i just installed this and i cant turn it on. i keep getting the message that i have to enable usbnet and when i click enable nothing happens. can anyone help me?

same here... whats this about shell service?

aonic · 07/07/2009, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volcom45

Will this work on Windows Vista 64bit? Anyone tried?

Some people have said it works in Vista. Apparently Vista already has the usb networking driver, you just have to select it. Please see the link in my initial post about drivers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cell128

same here... whats this about shell service?

You need to install org.webosinternals.services-0.4_all.ipk. You can install the same way as you installed My Tether ipk

Spunky424 · 07/07/2009, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aonic

Same way as you install my tether app. Here is the IPK for the shell service. http://vz.aonic.net:8080/~raja/pre/o...es-0.4_all.ipk

i'm still getting the same problem.

could it be the way order i installed them?

cell128 · 07/07/2009, 12:15 PM

i installed both of them too but no luck.. are u supposed to see an app icon for the shell service? i dont see anything change after install.

aonic · 07/07/2009, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cell128

i installed both of them too but no luck.. are u supposed to see an app icon for the shell service? i dont see anything change after install.

No, there's no app icon. I'm debugging this problem with Spunk and will report back with findings.

In the meantime, try restarting your Pre and try My Tether again.

cell128 · 07/07/2009, 12:19 PM

ok thanks a million for the help will check back in a while.

07/07/2009, 10:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
aonic Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 309 Thanks: 18 Thanked 629 Times in 58 Posts	My Tether - Tether over WiFi, USB, and BT. This app allows you to use your Pre to connect to the internet. It allows you to tether over USB, or Bluetooth PAN, and allows you to make your Pre into an WiFi hotspot to share your EVDO connection. The app handles enabling USBNet on the Pre via the UI, as well as enabling DHCP for tethering without having to ssh in to enable anything. Now on to the good stuff. You MUST re-run the install command again if you're running WebOS 1.3.1 Latest version: My Tether 1.5.1 & TetherService 0.5.1 You need root to install this app, but after installing you shouldn't need to root or ssh in to do anything else to make this app work. Previous versions of this app required webosinternals.services to be installed. This was ok, but it allowed any WebOS application on your Pre to run root commands. To close that "hole" I've made my own service to handle tethering functions. New In 1.5.1 Fixed to work with WebOS 1.3.1 New In 1.5.0 Removed dependency on webosinternals.services Added dashboard notifications on status of WiFi Tethering New Launcher icon by TavisJohn App remembers last tether option & opens to same one Cleaned up tether output & general UI to be more user friendly Security & added robustness in the backend IMPORTANT: WiFI and WebOS 1.3.1: Due to the changes in WebOS 1.3.1, maintaining WiFi tethering in this version is a hard task, I'll be announcing updates on that in a few days. For now, DO NOT use any of the packages claiming to fix WiFi in the "Free My Tether." Those packages were designed for WebOS 1.2.1 and WILL break WiFI on your Pre. Instructions (version 1.5.1): Root into your Pre and paste this one liner into your terminal: Code: wget -qO- http://vz.aonic.net/pre/my.tether.install \| /bin/sh Check here for "Accessing Linux instructions on Windows w/ SDK" This command will remove webosinternals.services, install the new tethering service, and install My Tether 1.5.0. It will also remove any old versions of My Tether If you get something like wget: bad address 'vz.aonic.net' in the output of the command then re-run the command. Don't let your Pre go to sleep during this command, and if your Pre is plugged into USB make sure its in "Charge Only" mode. Donation Link -- Requested by Users please dont announce your confirmation number, I receive an email from PayPal with everything Installing USBNet Drivers on Windows: If you're using USB tethering, you will need to install the usb network drivers on your machine. Instructions are here: pre dev wiki: USBnet networking setup These USBNet Drivers instructions are very good: http://forums.precentral.net/1791515-post1460.html Instructions for USBNet on Vista & Vista 64bit by mu7efcer 1. On Pre: in the My Tether program turn on usbnet. 2. Reboot Pre and open My Tether again and turn on DHCP 3. Plug in Pre to USB on Vista 4. In wizard that comes up asking for driver software, I chose ignore. 5. Then I went into the device manager, by right clicking on "My Computer" and selecting "Manage", then clicking on "Device Manager" 6. There was a device called "USB Ethernet Gadget". I right clicked on it and selected "Update Driver Software..." 7. In the wizard that came up, I clicked "Browse my computer for driver software" 8. In the next page, I clicked "Let me pick from a list of deice drivers on my computer" 9. It asked me to pick a type of hardware. I chose "Network Adapter" 10. Under "Manufacturer", I chose "Microsoft Corporation". (Note: this is not the same as "Microsoft") 11. In "Network Adapter", I chose "Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device. 12. Then I clicked Next. Bluetooth Tethering The report is that after you enable USB Tethering in My Tether, you can pair your machine to the Pre using Bluetooth PAN and tethering will work over Bluetooth. nttdemented's experience with BT -- For it to work over BT all I had to do was toggle it on (let it do its thing and reset) pair my netbook (running Win7) to the Phone and then join the computer to the BT PAN network of the Pre and I was golden. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. - version 2.1.0 now live. No patching, no ad-hoc, more features! Last edited by aonic; 11/17/2009 at 04:11 AM.

07/07/2009, 10:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
TMed_ATL Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: ATL/ Athens, GA Posts: 385 Thanks: 57 Thanked 23 Times in 20 Posts	Thanks for all your progress on this. this is what i really miss from my instinct Wifi Works Great pulling 1.8mb at work and 1.28 at home on the download. Thanks!!! __________________ SCK Manager To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Last edited by TMed_ATL; 07/11/2009 at 10:46 PM.

07/07/2009, 11:49 AM	#7 (permalink)
aonic Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 309 Thanks: 18 Thanked 629 Times in 58 Posts	Spunky: did you install it via root or SDK? If SDK, did you also install the shell service? hirenpathak: You can install via SDK and dont need to worry about root or SSH. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. - version 2.1.0 now live. No patching, no ad-hoc, more features! Last edited by aonic; 07/07/2009 at 11:55 AM.

07/07/2009, 11:54 AM	#9 (permalink)
jbg7474 Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,745 Thanks: 459 Thanked 233 Times in 169 Posts	I think you may still need the webosinternals part, which you may also be able to install via the SDK. I personally wimped out when I got to the ToS in the SDK install, which said things about not installing this if you didn't get it officially from Palm. I know Palm hasn't really made much of a move to slam the door on the leaked SDK, but it makes me nervous to install software I'm not supposed to have. It wasn't too hard to gain root access to my Pre following all the instructions on predevwiki. Total process from stock--> root--> tether took me about 1.5 hours. Thanks again aonic!!! __________________ Palm III-->Handspring Visor-->Sony Clie PEG-NR70-->no PDA To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. -->Palm Treo 755p-->Palm Pre

07/07/2009, 11:57 AM	#10 (permalink)
jbg7474 Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,745 Thanks: 459 Thanked 233 Times in 169 Posts	Oh, one more thing: I needed to get the driver for usbnet on my winxp machine. aonic, you may wish to add this to your instructions. Here's a link: pre dev wiki: USBnet networking setup. Follow the instructions at "On Windows XP". __________________ Palm III-->Handspring Visor-->Sony Clie PEG-NR70-->no PDA To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. -->Palm Treo 755p-->Palm Pre

07/07/2009, 10:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
Zyphlin Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 332 Thanks: 167 Thanked 55 Times in 26 Posts	Looks great. I know this was a big missing feature for some, especially many coming from Windows Mobile, so its great to see it possible.

07/07/2009, 11:38 AM	#5 (permalink)
Spunky424 Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 28 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	i just installed this and i cant turn it on. i keep getting the message that i have to enable usbnet and when i click enable nothing happens. can anyone help me?

07/07/2009, 11:44 AM	#6 (permalink)
hirenpathak Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 76 Thanks: 3 Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts	Do I still need to root in and then install this app through SDK or I can only install this using SDK and don't worry about root??

07/07/2009, 11:49 AM	#8 (permalink)
chrissurra Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 160 Thanks: 94 Thanked 127 Times in 27 Posts	Thank you so much it works like a charm!

07/07/2009, 12:08 PM	#14 (permalink)
volcom45 Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 527 Thanks: 136 Thanked 21 Times in 21 Posts	Will this work on Windows Vista 64bit? Anyone tried?

07/07/2009, 12:15 PM	#18 (permalink)
cell128 Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 37 Thanks: 1 Thanked 21 Times in 5 Posts	i installed both of them too but no luck.. are u supposed to see an app icon for the shell service? i dont see anything change after install.

07/07/2009, 12:19 PM	#20 (permalink)
cell128 Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 37 Thanks: 1 Thanked 21 Times in 5 Posts	ok thanks a million for the help will check back in a while.

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