HELP! Internet through USB iPhone OSuse 11.3 laptop

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Hi, my system is
OpenSUSE 11.3 GNOME on a Latitude E6410 laptop.

I used to be able to plug in the USB cable and then choose the network that shows up (when you “share internet” on the iPhone).

The network still shows up (Auto wwan0) and I can choose it, but it doesn’t connect… No problem to do this thing on an old MacBookPro.

I plan to bring the SUSE computer with me an a travel (need to get into LINUX, since I’m a quite new user of it).

So please help me out! OR give me a hint, or show me a direction…

Any help is very much appreciated!!!

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Hi I can’t understand your description :slight_smile: could You elaborate ?
Where do You choose the network ?
Where does it show up ?

Is your iPhone an access point in this configuration ?
or is it that the iPhone acts as an antena for the GSM/UMTS internet ?

Best regards,
Greg

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OK, I’ll try to be clear this time;)

I have a shortcut icon in the panel (close to the time and date display) for network connections. If I left click this icon, a list with a number of wired as well as wireless networks shows up.

When I run my iphone with the setting->internet sharing: ON and plug in the USB cable in between the laptop and the iphone, a network called Auto wwan0 (this is the iphone) shows up when left clicking the network connections icon in the panel.

The iphone is an access point, and I used to be able to connect to the iphone before (and then use the iphone’s GSM/UMTS connection in order to surf the web on the laptop). Now this does not work for me anymore. Why?

I have only done the regular updates to the system, no special tweaks so I’m a bit confused…

Hope this was a bit more understandable…:wink:

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Yes I think it is now. I still don’t understand why do You need to plug in the iPhone in order for the network to show up but I guess that does not matter all that much. The icon for network connections is an applet for NetworkManager. Trace the logs when You’re trying to connect. You can do this with the following command to observe the log file “live” :

tail -f /var/log/NetworkManager

I think You need root rights to watch the log. After running this command keep the terminal open, try to connect and look what pops up there. You can also paste the output here if You are not sure what the log says.

Best regards,
Greg

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I’m writing from my phone, so I can’t copy and paste from the log.

The logs shows that all processes are fine until: “DHCP transaction took too long, stopping it.”

So this seems to be the problem.

Any idea what to do next? Hints/solutions are much appreciated!

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Can You connect with your PC to other access points ?

You could try to modify the file :

/etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp

And edit the line :

DHCLIENT_BIN=""

to look like this :

DHCLIENT_BIN="dhclient"

Best regards,
Greg

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Hi, thanks for the suggestion, but I had no luck with that tweak. When connecting to the iPhone the log still reveals that the dhcp transaction takes too long.

Still writing from my iPhone which is inconvenient. Adding to the inconvenience: I fell from my bike and broke my collar bone… No Internet on the laptop, no (operational) right arm. But if you give me some more hints/suggestions I will (slowly) try it out.

Many thanks so far!

(in a few days I will get my hands on a machine so that I can copy n paste the log file)