HTC Legend USB tethering with Linux

HTC Legend USB tethering works out of the box with Linux, nothing else was required which was pretty cool.

usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxxxxxxxx

inet addr:192.168.100.100 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::dc32:95ff:fe2c:fcc3/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:1592 (1.5 KB) TX bytes:5472 (5.3 KB)

$ ping www.google.com

PING www.l.google.com (72.14.254.104) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from sin01s04-in-f104.1e100.net (72.14.254.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=129 ms

64 bytes from sin01s04-in-f104.1e100.net (72.14.254.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=70.7 ms

However, when I re-enabled my original eth0 connection (which was statically configured), my browser failed to resolve any of the URLs. It turned out that the dns server in my /etc/resolv.conf file was replaced by a reference to the Legend's IP address.

Ok, will try out USB tethering with OS X 10.6 when I get home. Hopefully, it will work out of the box else maybe something like usbnet will help.

-t