CentOS - Sep 2017 - Connecting to internet with USB tethered iphone

I am trying to get a centos 6 system on the internet with a tethered
iPhone. I can see the phone with lsusb as bus 001 device 011. A post on
stackoverflow said I would need to run "# ip link set usb0 up &&
dhcpcd
usb0"

But how do I reference my phone in that command?

On 22 September 2017 at 10:33, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to get a centos 6 system on the internet with a tethered
> iPhone. I can see the phone with lsusb as bus 001 device 011. A post on
> stackoverflow said I would need to run "# ip link set usb0 up
&& dhcpcd
> usb0"
>
> But how do I reference my phone in that command?
I thought that if the phone is in tethering mode that is all you need
to do. The command is saying setup an 'ethernet' port on the USB and
to ask for a dhcpd command from it. If the phone allows tethering it
will be using its USB as an ethernet connection and will see a dhcpd
connection and will give out an ip address.

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:30 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 22 September 2017 at 10:33, Larry Martell <larry.martell at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am trying to get a centos 6 system on the internet with a tethered
> > iPhone. I can see the phone with lsusb as bus 001 device 011. A post
on
> > stackoverflow said I would need to run "# ip link set usb0 up
&& dhcpcd
> > usb0"
> >
> > But how do I reference my phone in that command?
>
> I thought that if the phone is in tethering mode that is all you need
> to do. The command is saying setup an 'ethernet' port on the USB
and
> to ask for a dhcpd command from it. If the phone allows tethering it
> will be using its USB as an ethernet connection and will see a dhcpd
> connection and will give out an ip address.


Seems something else is using usb0 - without the phone connected I see
something on usb0 when running ifconfig. I think it's some internal
network.  I tried running those commands when the phones be was connected
but the system still is not on the internet.
>
>

On 09/22/2017 07:33 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> I am trying to get a centos 6 system on the internet with a tethered
> iPhone. I can see the phone with lsusb as bus 001 device 011. A post on
> stackoverflow said I would need to run "# ip link set usb0 up
&& dhcpcd
> usb0"
I always found that USB tethering is flaky and hard to set up. So I use
wifi tethering whenever possible. Just my $.02.

-- 
Yan Li

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 09/22/2017 07:33 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> I am trying to get a centos 6 system on the internet with a tethered
>> iPhone. I can see the phone with lsusb as bus 001 device 011. A post on
>> stackoverflow said I would need to run "# ip link set usb0 up
&& dhcpcd
>> usb0"
>
> I always found that USB tethering is flaky and hard to set up. So I use
> wifi tethering whenever possible. Just my $.02.
If this machine had wifi I would not need to use my phone.

>
> I always found that USB tethering is flaky and hard to set up. So I use
> wifi tethering whenever possible. Just my $.02.
>
+1 for just using wifi! :)

>
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> Yan Li
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