Rebuild Rogers kernel for tethering

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I've got Ubuntu up and running and I'm willing to rebuild the kernel to enable tethering.

Problem 1 is that I have not received my Magic yet

Problem 2 is that I have no idea what I need to do

So who wants to help?

Originally Posted by sammypwns

I've got Ubuntu up and running and I'm willing to rebuild the kernel to enable tethering.

Problem 1 is that I have not received my Magic yet

Problem 2 is that I have no idea what I need to do

So who wants to help?

I'll help. I've got tethering working using Azilink, but it would be nice to get it working using the Hero's built-in tethering option. Here's my post at ubuntuforums.org:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1202059

So are you rebuilding the kernel to get the iptables? I can't even get to make Ubuntu see the Magic as a communications device now.

It took me about 15 minutes to get the SDK up and running on Ubuntu 32 bit but I don't know where to find the source for the kernel or evena copy of the kernel itself. Once I have those it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to compile the kernel including iptables. In fact if I had the source to a kernel that does allow tethering it would be even faster because I could just drag and drop what I need into the build directory. I haven't seen the source but I think that the HTC branded kernel only differs by a few files and it might even be easier to move the HTC files to the Google kernel. Need more help and testers.

Originally Posted by sammypwns

It took me about 15 minutes to get the SDK up and running on Ubuntu 32 bit but I don't know where to find the source for the kernel or evena copy of the kernel itself. Once I have those it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to compile the kernel including iptables. In fact if I had the source to a kernel that does allow tethering it would be even faster because I could just drag and drop what I need into the build directory. I haven't seen the source but I think that the HTC branded kernel only differs by a few files and it might even be easier to move the HTC files to the Google kernel. Need more help and testers.

Do you have the port tools? They allow you to unpack the boot.img. I'll upload the port tools for you:

http://www.mediafire.com/?fnzdtnj4gmy

Just put all of the tools in your /android/tools folder.

To unpack the boot.img, you just have to run this command:

unpack-H.pl boot.img

That's it. Good-luck. Messing around with the kernel is way above my know-how.

@hotweiss thanks a bunch

This guide shows you how to push the IP tables on the Magic:

http://android-unleashed.com/2008/11...xy-needed.html

do I just need to incorprate the iptables binary with the kernel when I build it. Again I haven't seen either kernel to compare them.

Originally Posted by sammypwns

do I just need to incorprate the iptables binary with the kernel when I build it. Again I haven't seen either kernel to compare them.

Haven't done it myself yet, but it looks like it's just an issue of following a few steps. The biggest problem right now is to make Ubuntu see the Magic as a modem.

again I don't have my magic yet so I can't comment on that but if anyone has a google branded version could you please check and see if you can get ubuntu to recognize it as a modem. if so then we know that it has only to do with the kernel itself.

EDIT: Also I can't get unpack-H.pl to work, i keep getting bash: /home/sammy/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r2/tools/unpack-H.pl: Permission denied

Originally Posted by sammypwns

again I don't have my magic yet so I can't comment on that but if anyone has a google branded version could you please check and see if you can get ubuntu to recognize it as a modem. if so then we know that it has only to do with the kernel itself.

EDIT: Also I can't get unpack-H.pl to work, i keep getting bash: /home/sammy/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r2/tools/unpack-H.pl: Permission denied

right click on unpack-H.pl, set the permissions, and make it executable.