[CentOS] Connecting to internet with USB tethered iphone

[Larry Martell]

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.

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