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

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.

On 09/22/2017 03:07 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> 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 see. We all have to make use of what we have.

Another option is to add a USB wifi dongle, such as
https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY

$7.99 including shipping and it is pretty plug-and-play.

-- 
Yan Li

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 09/22/2017 03:07 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>> 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 see. We all have to make use of what we have.
>
> Another option is to add a USB wifi dongle, such as
>
https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY
>
> $7.99 including shipping and it is pretty plug-and-play.
One of the comments says you need to be connected to the internet to
install the drivers. That would not work for me.