This is a note for my own reminder. It’s also sort of a cheap hack. iPhone 3.0 has the ability to tether to a computer over Bluetooth or USB. The task is made extremely simple on Windows and Mac, but I haven’t really figured out a way to take advantage of the iPhone’s tethering feature on Ubuntu. Maybe some day it will be integrated into NetworkManager, but in the mean time, we’re forced hack our way to a functional existence. So the method I found that works requires a jailbroken iPhone. Here’s how to do it. Note that obviously this can be done on almost any distribution of Linux with minor modifications to the steps.
- Download libiphone. To do this in Ubuntu 9.04, just add these lines to your sources list, along with their key (F0876AC9). Then
apt-get update
