Tethering the NC to iPhone 4?

[AnimaTechnica]

@rico - i was thinking the same, but thought i'd make sure

well since my wife declined the jailbreak, and she did warn me not to do it behind her back, i decided to go with plan B - that is let her use my verizon mifi and I'll try to tether using my Droid - so after a couple of hours of research, i finally got it working

basically the key is enabling adhoc on NC, rooting the droid phone, then using Wifi Tether app on the droid. Now this broadcasts in adhoc mode so i needed to prepare the NC to be able to connect to AdHoc. tried the adb method, could not get it to work and finally settled on rogerdugan's method which uses root explorer and terminal to do it


i downloaded root explorer and Better Terminal Emulator (from app planet)

Download the switch-adhoc.zip file xda-developers

and follow the instructions below (original posting at XDA here)

method below by Rogerdugans
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unzipped the switch-adhoc file, and open Root Explorer
Navigate with Root Explorer to /system/bin amd click on the Mount rw button.

Copied the unzipped files (4 files) into /system/bin

Launched the Better Terminal Emulator app to start a terminal session and
typed su

su
cd /system/bin
ls

'cd' to get you to the right directory
'ls' to make sure the files are there

and then in Better Terminal Emulator type
'chmod 755 /system/bin/wpa_supplicant.adhoc' then press enter
'chmod 755 /system/bin/wpa_supplicant.infrastructure' then press enter
'chmod 755 /system/bin/adhoc' then press enter
'chmod 755 /system/bin/infrastructure' then press enter

Used Root Explorer to make /system/bin ro again

For good measure rebooted the nook by typing in the terminal: reboot

After the reboot opened terminal and did
su
adhoc

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on the Droid, run Wifi Tether app
so now in adhoc mode you should see the adhoc signal (I use wifi manager ) - shown as *AndroidTether the (*) indicates it is adhoc, connect to it


now if i want to go back to infrastructure mode, turn off wifi first, then just open the terminal again:
type 'SU' then enter
type 'infrastructure' then enter

and tried connecting - success!

 

[AnimaTechnica]

one comment though - it sucks a lot of Droid battery life

 

[MannyPR]

I had not done the adhoc fix to my NC because I didn't think i would need it... until today. I am on the road and really need to tether but I can't! I have no access to my laptop either so i can't adb.

Could someone point me to the method to do the fix without adb? I have looked *almost* everywhere without luck. I read somewhere that it could be done with Root Explorer but I can't seem to be able to find out how.

Thanks!

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[AnimaTechnica]

here's what i posted to get it to work on my droid http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/nook-color-technical/7379-tethering-nc-iphone-4-a-2.html

basically the key is enabling adhoc on NC by adding a file (wpa_supplicant) to the system/bin directory, rooting the droid phone, then using Wifi Tether app on the droid. follow the steps to enable NC to use adhoc using Terminal Emulator and Root Explorer - you can find these either in the market or AppPlanet

 

[MannyPR]

Will try that! Thanks much!

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[MannyPR]

I got it working but it is kind of fuzzy sometimes on assigning an ip addres. I can connect to the iPhone running MyFi but get 0.0.0.0 as the IP.

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