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. > >