Tether capability with android-wifi-tether (Wireless Tether for Root Users)

[cheeseybulb01]

Hurray, it's working! I was stuck at the last step before. It appear to be working but the network wasn't broadcasting. Turns out you have to install the tiwlan_drv.ko AFTER you flash the boot image, NOT before. Once I did that, the wifi tethering app started to work provided that I manually ran the script. Should the guide be changed? I think the driver should be installed AFTER the boot image flash...

[rainabba]

I'm running 2.1 and this was a bit painful to get working, but more than worth the effort. After following the instructions, I too had to place wlan.ko (don't recall the exact file name atm) in order to actually see traffic. I WAS able to get a WiFi connection and the client grabbed an IP, but it looked to me like ip traffic wasn't getting through the phone.

I've also found (or so it seems), that I have to run 'tether start' twice after enabling WiFi explicity before I the SSID is broadcast. Greatly looking forward to seeing the GUI and 2.1 issues resolved so this is more friendly to launch, but I again say thank you!

[Berzerker]

Running on 2.0.1...I did everything correctly, the app reports it's started ok, but I'm not getting any SSID broadcast from the phone to any computer...is it actually supossed to completely disable wifi? I mean...it does, but then how is this wifi tethering if this it's turned off? Enabling wifi again forces it to connect to another AP here. Anything I'm missing?

[ddarvish]

long shot but maybe your permissions arent set properly?try this
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image then try this
/system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
make sure sdcard is not mounted via usb

can someone help?\


when I try and "/system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img"

I get "/system/xbin/flash_image not found"

I know it's there because droid explorer shows that flash_image is in /xbin/

any ideas? please

I am still stuck on this step as well. i have tried the chmod with no luck

btw my file is not in system/xbin but rather /system/bin which i hope is correct...

anyhow this is the output from my attempt.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

$ su
su
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
Unable to chmod /system/bin/flash_image: Read-only file system
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# /system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
/system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
error writing boot: Permission denied

[iamkewl]

long shot but maybe your permissions arent set properly?try this
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image then try this
/system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
make sure sdcard is not mounted via usb

can someone help?\


when I try and "/system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img"

I get "/system/xbin/flash_image not found"

I know it's there because droid explorer shows that flash_image is in /xbin/

any ideas? please

I am still stuck on this step as well. i have tried the chmod with no luck

btw my file is not in system/xbin but rather /system/bin which i hope is correct...

anyhow this is the output from my attempt.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

$ su
su
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
Unable to chmod /system/bin/flash_image: Read-only file system
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
# /system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
/system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
error writing boot: Permission denied

try it in recovery

[JhankG]

I'm running 2.1 and this was a bit painful to get working, but more than worth the effort. After following the instructions, I too had to place wlan.ko (don't recall the exact file name atm) in order to actually see traffic. I WAS able to get a WiFi connection and the client grabbed an IP, but it looked to me like ip traffic wasn't getting through the phone.

I've also found (or so it seems), that I have to run 'tether start' twice after enabling WiFi explicity before I the SSID is broadcast. Greatly looking forward to seeing the GUI and 2.1 issues resolved so this is more friendly to launch, but I again say thank you!

I am on 2.1 as well and was wondering if you (or anyone else who has tried) can describe what needs to be done differently from those who are 2.0.1.

[nothing0]

I appreciate the efforts by everyone. This will be great if I can get it to work.

I had trouble with this step...
`cat /sdcard/tether > /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether`
It said that the file didn't exist even though I could see the file and it was named tether on my sd card. If I typed `cat /sdcard/tether.txt > /data/data/android.tether/bin/tether` it worked... but now when I launch the program, I have to hit the 'press to start tethering' several times to get it started. After it starts, It's still not broadcasting.

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.

[mickeyx323]

I noticed when i moved the new tether.txt into the bin folder and renamed it tether, it didnt work. But when i named it tether.orig the gui started correctly and the upload download showed up on the bottom. But I cant get it to broadcast the ssid

[danlo315]

Hello,

I'm stuck in the flash_image step with "error writing boot: Permission denied" error as well. I'm executing this through adb shell so I'm in recovery:

$ su
su
su: access granted, courtesy of Your Page Title
# flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
error writing boot: Permission denied

I've done the recovery partition and did my backup, so I'm fairly certain flash_image works. Can anybody assist in this?

Thanks.

[crdnilfan]

Hello,

I'm stuck in the flash_image step with "error writing boot: Permission denied" error as well. I'm executing this through adb shell so I'm in recovery:

$ su
su
su: access granted, courtesy of Your Page Title
# flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
error writing boot: Permission denied

I've done the recovery partition and did my backup, so I'm fairly certain flash_image works. Can anybody assist in this?

Thanks.

You have to run the
/system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
command from a recovery console.

thats done by going into recovery mode and mounting both the sdcard and /system areas. then using the android SDK to launch an ADB shell on your phone, execute the exact same code
(/system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img)
from that shell.