Tethering to Macbook issues

[Guest mcbainuk]

Hopefully I'm not starting a duplicate thread, I've done some searching but can't find anything.

I'm having problems getting my San Fransisco to tether to my macbook. I'm running Snow Leopard on a 2008 unibody Macbook.

I'm presently running Swedish Spring RLS5 but I had the exact same issue with Seb Desoftened ROM too.

I've got an XP partition I can book into using bootcamp and I can tether to that with no problems what so ever.

When trying to tether in MacOS, I can cannot to the phone as an access point but it refuses to connect to the internet through it.

I've tested tethering in MacOS on it using a friends Desire running stock 2.2 and that works fine.

Has anyone got any ideas? Any help is much appriciated.

Thanks

[Guest flshg]

More info needed

Are you using the built-in tethering system in the rom or some other tethering app? Are you using wifi or usb or bluetooth tethering? What error messages do you see? Does the tethering app show any data being transferred? Could some firewall on your mac os be blocking it somehow?

Edited June 16, 2011 by flshg

[Guest mcbainuk]

More info needed

Are you using the built-in tethering system in the rom or some other tethering app? Are you using wifi or usb or bluetooth tethering? What error messages do you see? Does the tethering app show any data being transferred? Could some firewall on your mac os be blocking it somehow?

Built in tethering of 2.2, using Wifi. (I did try downloading Barnacle but that was no better)

the built in tethering doesn't seem to show any data transmission information.

The are no error messages, http requests just time out.

I wouldn't have thought it's a firewall issue otherwise I would have expected my friend Desire to have the same tethering issues, obviously I could be wrong though.

I did try the networking troubleshooter in MacOS, I can't remember exactly what the names are of the tests it runs.. but it failed at the ISP test. I'll try again later and give the full details.

Seems odd, if it was a problem with the ROM, why does it work in Windows. If it is a problem with the Mac, why does the Desire running stock 2.2 work. In the wise word of Father Dougal Mcguire... I'm hugely confused!

Edited June 16, 2011 by mcbainuk

[Guest mcbainuk]

Macbook was configured for "DHCP with Manual Address"..

for some reason this worked on the Desire but on the San Fransisco it needs automatic address.

Once that was changed it worked