Tethering included?

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Just got a brand new "G2 Touch" from T-mobile, and found under:

Settings -> Wirless -> "Mobile Netzwerkfreigabe(aka Tethering?)"

If i check the box it deactivates the usb mass storage and a new device appears. Windows hasn't got drivers for this device. Someone any ideas, how to use this feature?

this post did it for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...2&postcount=20

there's also a thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535404

the error on the phone is not entirely clear - it says drivers are on the SD card. According to HTC support, they are embedded in the HTCSync app, which I thought was just for Outlook syncing. Put it back into USB card mode, run the htcsync setup from the SD card, and try again

it worked for me in vista (i'd already installed the htcsync app on that machine so I don't know if the drivers were already part of vista or if the app installed them)

On my UK T-mobile HTC Hero I can confirm that the 'Tethering' option is there in Wireless>Settings, buried at the bottom as 'Mobile Network sharing'

It appears to work when you have the HTC Sync software installed on Windows, as described...

Now here's the £1million question.. anyone have any idea how to get a Tether enabled Hero to talk to Linux? :)

the windows drivers from htcsync are in the SDK
perhaps there are some linux ones in there also?

Just tested with gentoo, works with the normal rndis driver compiled in!
Thats perfect !

So I think it should work "out of the box" with the most Linux Distributions.

Just plugv in, and do an dhcp request on usb0 or usb1

yeah... <blush> I just tried this on my openSUSE 11.1 laptop and it worked strait away as USB0, no drivers, no installation, no problem....

I really should have tried it before posting!

And yet another bit of hardware that works more easily with Linux than Windows! ;)

Interestingly, the Tethering isn't limited to the 'Mobile Networking' (aka 3G/HSDPA) connection.
If you have Wifi configured on your Hero, that is the connection the Tether will use, pretty nice if you want to Wifi-enable any device and save on your data limits.

yeah... when I was testing I got rather confused briefly as to why my computer still had its usual internet IP even though I'd disabled its network card (because it was connecting to the router via the phone's wireless)

slightly puzzingly, disabling mobile data disables the tethering option (even if it's going to end up using the wireless anyway). i'm sure there'll be someone with that specific use-case. But it's not me, so I'm happy