Connecting IPhone 3Gs To Netbook Using Fedora

[stoski]

Hi, I am trying to connect my iphone 3GS to my netbook using Fedora 15, tethered via a USB cable. When I first plug it in, it recognizes it as a digital media player and pops up a dialog asking what I want to do, recognizes it as media with digital photos on it and pops up another dialog asking what I want to do, mounts the documents folder on the iphone and opens an file manager window, and adds an eth1 interface dynamically. The network manager recognizes it as a wired connection and tries to connect to it. This times out and the interface is left off.

This is so close to just working right out of the box. I really commend the Fedora team for this release. I am thinking of submitting this as a bug, but just want to ask here first, is there there something I don't know about the iphone which makes it unable to connect to eth1? Mentioned here was an ad-hoc network connection, is this mandatory for connecting to iphone through the USB cable? Ideally it would just connect to the cellular network and pull an IP, but I'm a newbie with this and am not sure about the level of security that affords me.

Any expert or semi expert input appreciated.

[Peter Shaws]

Start by installing git and libimobiledevice-devel:

$ sudo -E yum install git libimobiledevice-devel

Then clone the git tree for the driver:

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ git clone https://github.com/dgiagio/ipheth.git

Compile and install the pairing program:

$ cd ipheth/ipheth-pair
$ make
$ sudo make install

Compile and install the driver:

$ cd ../ipheth-driver
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo rmmod ipheth.ko
$ sudo insmod ipheth.ko

You can find more information here.

A question: my Fedora box freezes when I plug my iPhone, so I have to boot with it plugged in order to be able to use it. Does yours freeze too?

[toker]

I confirm this worked perfectly for me. And no, my fedora box does not freeze when I plug my iphone.

[stoski]

I submitted a kernel bug report here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704636

The kernel driver has been updated to fix this bug. They sent me this:
Package kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.

After testing, it works good. As of yesterday:
--- Comment #4 from Fedora Update System <updates@fedoraproject.org> 2011-06-07 00:35:15 EDT ---
kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.

Also I have experienced no freezing when using iphone, sorry for the late reply.

[jack059]

Fresh install Fedora 16, tried this and got caught out with an error

Any ideas ?

Jack

[stoski]

My notes from Fedora 15, don't know if it will help but might give you some ideas...

download module source from https://github.com/dgiagio/ipheth
install kernel headers with 'yum install kernel-devel'
install gcc compiler with 'yum install gcc'
unpack package into temp directory
run 'make' in directory, then
'cp ipheth.ko /lib/modules/2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686/kernel/drivers/net/usb/'
then issue the following commands:
'depmod -a'
'rmmod ipheth'
'modprobe ipheth'
The new module is installed! Iphone will now work as long as the firmware isnt upgraded to 4.3.
This works with 4.2.1 (iOS)


Im going to try installing Fedora 16 to see what happens, currently my iphone 3GS OS is ver 4.3.5, so I'm not hopeful about it working, but we shall see.

---------- Post added at 11:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:45 PM ----------

DVD upgrade install of Fedora 16, iPhone ethernet works. pretty sure tethering was broken before I upgraded, but didn't check, so that just might be compiled driver from 15 still working.. except that:

- iOS 4.3.5 on iPhone
- automatically opened rhythmbox on discovery, iPhone listed in devices (kinda like Itunes but haven't tested)
- automatically opened documents folder, asks me what I want to do with it

so I think Fedora 16 install actually fixed some things for me.

overall liked the install, it seems like they have tweaked the Gnome3 GUI at little...