Performed a clean boot to Windows and the problem still occurs Performed a factory refresh on the computer and the problem with tethering occurs straight out of the gate. It seems that the driver should just work. It can't be installed from anywhere. It's not meant to be installed like that. It's supposed to be plug and play. Select the Network tab or scroll to and tap Network & internet Tethering. Tap the USB tethering switch to turn on. When the 'First Time User' window appears, tap OK. If your PC uses Windows XP, tap Download Windows XP driver, follow the on-screen prompts. Tethering For Android WinXP. Welcome to DIY computer repairs tech guide on tethering for Android. While it may sound simple to perform a tethering for Android, users of Android phones will already know that when you hook up the phone to your Windows computer, the Windows computer will ask for the drivers of Android phone. Try to enable USB tethering again, or better restart your phone, then connect it to PC and enable USB tethering. Usb0 will disappear if USB tethering option is off. You will have working Internet connection before ifconfig rmnet0 0.0.0.0.
Go into Phone-Settings-Wireless & networks-Tethering-Enable USB tethering. Windows XP picks up a device but doesn't know what it is.
Windows 10 Usb Internet Tethering
This post is drafted only for your reference and will not be supported any further as Microsoft ended its support for Windows XP editions
At present; almost all smart-devices support sharing the DATA internet from the phone to PC. When it comes to Android you’re be able to share your Google™ Android™ device’s mobile data connection with a single computer via a USB cable or via Bluetooth: and “this is called tethering“. In order to start the service, you just need to select the tethering option available within your phone settings.
Well, I actually wanted to say that; tethering will works perfectly on Linux, Ubuntu & Windows vista/seven operating systems with no modifications needed. But in Windows XP, it contains the drivers you need on USB tethering, but you must install a configuration file before connecting your phone to your Windows XP computer, to instruct Windows XP how to configure itself to use those drivers.
Steps to configure tethering in Windows XP
- First of all, right click on this link & save it as a file (if your browser show you as .html while downloading, just remove .html & save it as a file).
- Make sure you saved the file on to a convenient place, like desktop (you can save the file wherever you want.. just I advised you to save to a place which is convenient to identify).
- Once done saving the file.. connect your android device using the DATA cable given to you with the phone & plug it to your Computer.
- Afterwards, go to Settings on your mobile; then select Wireless & Networks > and select Tethering & portable hotspot.
- Under Tethering & portable hotspot select (check with a tick) USB tethering.
Usb Tethering Windows 10 Setup
- When done selecting, you’ll see a dialog box appearing on your windows XP computer mentioning “new hardware wizard” or something similar.. There select “No, not at this time” and click Next.
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- Thereafter, select “Install from a list or specific location” and click Next once again.
- After, click Browse to browse to the file directory where you saved the configuration file you downloaded in Step 1 and click Next. Windows XP uses the configuration file to configure itself to support USB tethering with the Android phone.
- When Windows XP finishes installing the software for Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS, click Finish.
If above method failed to so, simply install the mobile suite & try connecting, it should work…
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