iPhone usb tethering

andrnils · #1 August 13th, 2010, 20:40

I got my new iPhone today, and playing around with it found that it had an option for internet tethering ( my old one had that to, but I had no 3g-data service ), so I would like to use it with my FreeBSD install.

A bit of googling gives that it actually works on linux, via a in-kernel driver ipheth and a userland utility to pair the device. Has anyone made any attempt at porting those utilities to fbsd?

For those interested the driver and userland utils are available here here. The author has a bit more info on his site

Any dev wanting to take up the task? Anyone else interested in this functionality?

Best regards
andrnils

tobii · #2 August 14th, 2010, 15:07

Since im only using Windows to tether and put software updates on my iPhone im really interested in this!

**lme@** · #3 August 17th, 2010, 08:04

Have you tried cdce(4)?

andrnils · #4 August 18th, 2010, 06:24

That is interesting. Too bad nothing did happen

But I think that may be because one needs to send some magic command to the phone first ( pairing ), so perhaps a port of the userland tools and then a new test

andrnils · #5 August 18th, 2010, 17:38

Some progress, I have some semi-working ports for libplist and usbmuxd, so only libimobiledevice left before a real try with cdce(4) can happen.

And then a some cleaning of the Makefiles for the ports. I've never written any before so there are bound to be errors, gotchas and so on

Regards
andrnils

**lme@** · #6 August 18th, 2010, 19:07

Congrats!

andrnils · #7 August 18th, 2010, 19:10

So I went ahead and compiled libimobiledevice ( no port yet ), and tested. I can now pair my iPhone with my computer

Code:

[andrnils@t510 /opt/iphone/bin ] 18:57:47 =0
$ sudo usbmuxd -U root -f
[18:57:50.749][3] usbmuxd v1.0.5 starting up
[18:57:50.755][3] Initialization complete
[18:57:56.763][3] Could not check kernel ownership of interface 0 for device 1-5: -99
[18:57:57.743][2] Could not set configuration 4 for device 1-5: -2
[18:57:58.744][3] Could not check kernel ownership of interface 0 for device 1-5: -99
[18:57:58.793][3] Connecting to new device on location 0x10005 as ID 1
[18:57:58.794][3] Connected to v1.0 device 1 on location 0x10005 with serial number 658b072e06fb6fcc6aa9a440a7dbd7594cec8417

To test the internet tethering I just added a device identifier to /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/net/if_cdce.

Code:

{USB_VPI(USB_VENDOR_APPLE, 0x1297, CDCE_FLAG_NO_UNION)},

which was enough to get the iphone registerad as a usb ethernet ( actually 3 nics ). Perhaps someone could #define

Code:

#define USB_PRODUCT_APPLE_IPHONE_4G     0x1297          /* iPhone 4G */

in the correct place.

Code:

cdce0: <Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus1
cdce0: faking MAC address
ue0: <USB Ethernet> on cdce0
ue0: Ethernet address: 2a:ba:b8:d4:02:00
cdce1: <Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus1
cdce1: faking MAC address
ue1: cdce2: <USB Ethernet> on cdce1<Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus1
ue1: 
Ethernet address: 2a:07:b9:d4:02:01
cdce2: faking MAC address
ue2: <USB Ethernet> on cdce2
ue2: Ethernet address: 2a:32:b9:d4:02:02
cdce0: <Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus1
cdce0: faking MAC address
ue0: <USB Ethernet> on cdce0
ue0: Ethernet address: 2a:75:5f:d7:02:00
cdce1: <Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus1
cdce1: faking MAC address
cdce2: <Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus1
ue1: <USB Ethernet> on cdce1
ue1: Ethernet address: 2a:df:5f:d7:02:01
cdce2: faking MAC address
ue2: <USB Ethernet> on cdce2
ue2: Ethernet address: 2a:2a:60:d7:02:02

None of the nics responded to dhclient, so perhaps the cdce(4) driver is not up to the task with a bit of mangling. There should also be some sanity checks that are now missing: The ethernet interface should only be exposed when internet tethering is turned on on the phone and when the phone has been succsessfully paired with the computer.

Regards
andrnils

andrnils · #8 August 19th, 2010, 15:14

And now there is a port for libimobiledevices too. Just the kernel part left

And of course a bit of clean up...

And as for the kernel part I'm probably not up to doing that on my own

Regards
andrnils

hselasky · #9 August 19th, 2010, 22:34

FYI:

http://p4web.freebsd.org/@@182630?ac=10

--HPS

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