On 22 September 2017 at 11:39, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > That may be the case with some hardware. A lot of management hardware will appear as a USB network address so you can loop back into the hardware that way. You could try usb1 for the phone to see if that works. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Stephen J Smoogen.