*** UPDATE *** [2009-07-23] Wireless Tether for Root Users (Opensource)

2311 said:

Sorry if this has been asked before, it's kind of hard to search for my question, I tried looking up several tutorial videos but didn't find anything.

Can you get wifi to a laptop that has no bluetooth or wifi built into it? In other words, I'm talking via USB from the phone.

A side note: a WiFi card is not an option (long story).

Thank you very much, apologies in advance if this is the wrong place or has been covered.

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Ukrai said:

really need some help, been trying for days now and no luck

ive rooted my HTC Legend and installed a new 2.1 rom, i then installed wifi tethering app and allowed root access, all seems good, my laptop finds it and connects but it then gives a 'no internet access' label and will not browse in IE or chrome.

things i tried:

- Turned off windows firewall
- reinstalled wifi tethering app (latest test build from google code site)
- turned off Access Control & WEP
- Did (Re)-install binaries/config

Any other ideas?

Edit: i installed Barnacle Wifi Tether to see if its just the app, and this fails to even start up, gives error: "shell-init: error retrieving current directory: ge4tcwd: cannot access parent directories: permission denied" - could i have an issue with my root access? how can i test that?

Edit2: Installed another 2 different ROMS, a 2.1 and a 2.2, both of them would crash and reboot when starting wifi tethering (freeze on starting up), barnacle would start fine but still be undetectable by laptop.

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