so where can I get this pdanet? I can't find it in http://modmyi.com/info/pdanet.php. thanks.

Pdanet is in Cydia.

Tutorial here:

http://www.ismashphone.com/2008/09/pdanet.html

Originally Posted by PvE

pdanet does exactly what we want it to. It's full tethering. Not proxying. I just got it so I'm not 100% sure how it works. But it does work. I assume it's just doing normal nat routing. It works as a dhcp server as well. So you really don't have to worry about much in the way of configurations.

You're right, it seems to do DHCP (it was assigning an IP address to my laptop), and full tethering. Not with a proxy, I even got Skype to work.

I have uninstalled it, though. The phone got very hot during tethering, and a process "Darwin" or "PDANet" is always running, even when no tethering is going on. I don't like that kind of stuff, the battery drains fast enough as it is. Maybe the iPhone is simply not up to the task of being an internet router.

I tried it also. It makes iphone hang. Everytime I use it for a while the iphone hangs. Also battery is a concern, even it is plugged in. The charging is not fast enough to cope with the draining. So I prefer tethering using the usb cable and zsrelay.

Originally Posted by Jim Danner

The phone got very hot during tethering, and a process "Darwin" or "PDANet" is always running, even when no tethering is going on. I don't like that kind of stuff, the battery drains fast enough as it is. Maybe the iPhone is simply not up to the task of being an internet router.

There is a switch on the main page at the bottom, that disables the router.

Originally Posted by nofearl

There is a switch on the main page at the bottom, that disables the router.

Have you checked whether that eliminates that process?

Originally Posted by Jim Danner

Have you checked whether that eliminates that process?

no, just guessing

Just wanted to share an interesting use of PDANet that I stumbled across...maybe someone out there can improve upon this or just find a use for it as I have.

I haven't sold my 1st gen iphone and have been getting annoyed at having to disrupt pandora or whatever else I might be using my 3g for whenever anyone calls. So, I've been wondering how to tether my 1st gen to my 3g somehow so that I can put it to practical use again in my wi-fi lacking home. Turns out PDAnet lets me do exactly that:

I just set up an ad-hoc network between my 3g and laptop, then connect to it using my 1st gen iphone and voila! pseudo wi-fi on my 1st gen that gets very reliable 3g speeds. The tether between my 1st gen and 3g persists even if I disable my laptop radio or shut it off completely. The only problem with this is that I need the laptop to establish the adhoc network...if I could cut the laptop out of the picture this would be really genuinely useful for me.

Any ideas? or maybe a non-PDAnet option to accomplish the same thing?

good one........................

so how about it...who's going to bust out an app for initiating an adhoc network with the iPhone - one that other computers/phones can then connect to? Seems like something that could be done, but I really have no understanding of what it would require.