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

[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.

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.

Thanks, that worked. I was able to finish the installation. However, when trying to start the app on the phone, it kept saying the tethering failed. I had to go to shell and manually run the ./tether script. The SSID was broadcasting if I manually run the script, but doesn't appear if I try to use the app. I'm on 2.0.1.

[Natolx]

Alright got it working is there any way to modify the script so that the SSID is broadcast for longer?

[bogdan912]

I'm running 2.1... I can get the phone to act like it's tethering if I manually start the script from an adb shell but it doesn't broadcast, at least my fedora 10 laptop doesn't pick it up.

Also when I start the script manually I get this output, I am just starting to dig in now and see why I'm getting a lot of failures, just wondering if anyone else had this? Looks like it's not detecting the driver properly.

sh-3.2# sh tether start
ERROR - IPC_STA_Private_Send - error sending Wext private IOCTL to STA driver (ioctl_cmd = 8000000, res = -1, errno = 19)
Wlan_loader: Error sending init command (DRIVER_INIT_PARAM) to driver
Set property wlan.driver.status = failed - Ok
iptables v1.3.7: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device tiwlan0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device tiwlan0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device tiwlan0 ; No such device.
sh-3.2#

[KingDroid]

When I boot into recovery, I can't get to this...

• Select the nandroid submenu, and choose the "Default Nandroid Backup" option

I am using 0.14.3 and that isn't an option. The closest thing I see is if I go to backup/restore I see something that says simple nandroid backup but I don't want to select that if it is wrong. Please help me get past this step!

[paulmiller_19]

I am running 2.1 and wifi-tether is working perfectly for me (i don't need to manually run the start script). the only difference i did when installing was the location of my flash_image (for me it was in /data/local because i followed the sprecovery installation instructions from the sholes website). Great job guys this is great

[redwurm]

Got it working on 2.1 as well but the GUI app doesn't work as previously mentioned. tether start/stop works just fine

[JhankG]

So what are the chances that someone fairly new to Android, Linux, and rooting would be able to do this? I have edited the status bar and notification shade, updated to 2.1, and then went back down to 2.0.1 again without any issues. I just don't want to get halfway through the instructions and realize that I am in over my head.

[redwurm]

Shouldn't be that difficult, if you got to 2.1 and edited your status bar this should be about the same. Just follow the directions to the T and read the whole thread for any issues people are having.

[bogdan912]

I went to 2.1 last night and used sholes recovery, so I started at loading http://www.sholes.info/wp-content/up...ty-wifi.tar.gz.
Is the kernel mod for this different than the kernal mod posted in the 2.1 guide?

[KingDroid]

When I boot into recovery, I can't get to this...

• Select the nandroid submenu, and choose the "Default Nandroid Backup" option

I am using 0.14.3 and that isn't an option. The closest thing I see is if I go to backup/restore I see something that says simple nandroid backup but I don't want to select that if it is wrong. Please help me get past this step!

Any ideas guys? I really wanna finish this up tonight!