Replicant

h1. Replicant USB Networking

This page explains how to connect your Replciant phone to the Internet via an USB connection to a computer connected to the Internet. 

h2. What you need

* A phone running Replicant (but it should also work on [[CyanogenMod]] or Android)

* A computer with USB connectivity and network access running GNU/Linux

h2. Automation scripts

Two scripts are necessary: one to run on the host computer and one to run on the device.

h3. Replicant USB Networking - PC

Here's the script to run on the computer. Copy the following text to a file named "run_pc.sh" (or any other name, you just need to keep the same name along the process):

<pre>

#!/bin/sh

# Replicant USB Networking

# ========================                             

# 

# Copyright (C) 2011 Paul Kocialkowski, GPLv3+

# 

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

# 

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

IPTABLES_CLEAN_RULES=true

USB_IFACE="usb0"

INTERNET_IFACE="eth0"

USB_IFACE_IP="192.168.4.200"

# Clean iptables rules

iptables_rules_clean () {

	if [ $IPTABLES_CLEAN_RULES = false ]

	then

		return

	fi

	iptables --flush

	iptables --table nat --flush

	iptables --delete-chain

	iptables --table nat --delete-chain

}

# Inject iptables forwarding rules

iptables_forward_rules_apply () {

	iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface $INTERNET_IFACE -j MASQUERADE

	iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface $USB_IFACE -j ACCEPT

	echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 

}

# Configure network link

usb_networking_configure () {

	ifconfig $USB_IFACE up

	ifconfig $USB_IFACE $USB_IFACE_IP

}

usb_networking_disable () {

	ifconfig $USB_IFACE down

	echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 

}

case $1 in

	"start")

		echo "Starting Replicant USB Networking"

		iptables_rules_clean

		usb_networking_configure

		iptables_forward_rules_apply

	;;

	"stop")

		echo "Stopping Replicant USB Networking"

		usb_networking_disable

		iptables_rules_clean

	;;

	*)

		echo "Usage: sh $0 {start|stop}"

	;;

esac

</pre>

Then, set this file executable: 

h3. Replicant USB Networking - Device

Here's the script to run on the device. Copy the following text to a file named "run_dev.sh" (or any other name, you just need to keep the same name along the process):

<pre>

#!/system/bin/sh

# Replicant USB Networking

# ========================                             

# 

# Copyright (C) 2011 Paul Kocialkowski, GPLv3+

# 

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

# 

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# Enable USB Networking

USB_IFACE="usb0"

USB_IFACE_IP="192.168.4.202"

GATEWAY_IP="192.168.4.200"

DNS1_IP="8.8.8.8"

usb_networking_enable () {

	echo 1 > /sys/class/usb_composite/rndis/enable

	ifconfig usb0 up

}

usb_networking_configure () {

	ifconfig $USB_IFACE $USB_IFACE_IP

	route add default gw $GATEWAY_IP dev $USB_IFACE

	setprop net.dns1 $DNS1_IP

	# setprop net.dns1 $( cat /system/etc/resolv.conf | sed -e "s|.*#.*||" -e "s|^.*nameserver \(.*\)$|\1|g" | grep -v "^$" | head -n 1 )

}

usb_networking_disable () {

	echo 0 > /sys/class/usb_composite/rndis/enable

	ifconfig usb0 down

}

case $1 in

	"start")

		echo "Starting Replicant USB Networking"

		usb_networking_enable

		usb_networking_configure

	;;

	"stop")

		echo "Stopping Replicant USB Networking"

		usb_networking_disable

	;;

	*)

		echo "Usage: sh $0 {start|stop}"

	;;

esac

</pre>

h3. Using the scripts

Now both scripts are in place. You should now: 

<pre>

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Note that if you use [[NetworkManager]], it could notice a new network interface and try to configure it: you should disconnect this interface on [[NetworkManager]] before you run the second script. 

Now everything is in place. If no error is shown, it should now be working. You can try to ping some website on the device.

If It doesn't work, try to run again each script, running the configuration one more time can't do any worse. 

h4. Getting back to normal

If you want to disable Replicant USB Networking, you have to:

h3. Customizing the scripts

The variables at the beginning of each script can be customized for your usage:

h4. run_pc.sh

h4. run_dev.sh