Hello !
I have tried lots of things and the steps u need to do to get internet working on n900 with USB ! ,but still can't get internet working on my n900 with USB !
I have downloaded Mad-Developer !!
But still can't get the internet working

Or probarly I do someting wrong with mad-developer !
Or there is something more I need to do !
Help please maybe ur the one who can help me and tell me step by step to get this woking properly !!

Also check-out this - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58742
I have done what this guy says "ivyking" but still can't get internet working !!
Maybe he had missed something "ivyking"
Or u can explain me more desriptive to make me understand well !
Thank u very much !
I will appreciate ur replies !

Why open a new thread on the same topic ?

Why you're asking for more details w/o providing a single one on what you've already done ?

Have you configured your network, are you using the dhcp or a static address, you are able to ping the n900 from the pc and viceversa ?

Do you want to to share the 3g connection or do you want to share the land line one ?

n0ak, I don't get how people like you come to be the way you are. Did you try looking on your own? Did you read everything and then even once think "maybe I should try fiddling around with this myself" before coming here for help, twice in a row? And finally, did you think about the way your commets will be perceived by the others on this forum, or about how much easier it would be to help you if you were more detailed about what you tried?

But, lucky for you, I am one of those people who tries to figure stuf out on my own and happen to have a Vista laptop. So here's a very detailed breakdown of how to get USB internet to the N900. Some of these steps you probably already did so they might not need to happen again.

- Installation (Can skip steps if you already did them) -

+ Install rootsh on your N900.
+ Install Mad Developer on your N900.
+ Install Nokia PC Connectivity Suite of whatever it's called on your computer.
(I installed MADDE on my computer. I don't think it's necessary, though.)

- Needs to be done every time -

+ Open Network and Sharing Center on you computer. (I'm assuming you know how)
+ Click "Manage network connections" - it should be on the left side of the Network and Sharing Center.
+ Make sure that none of them have the word "Shared" in the status. If one does, right click on it, and press Properties. Vista will pop up its security warning ("Windows needs your permission to continue") - click Continue. Go into the sharing tab and UNcheck the top checkbox "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection". Press ok. (Even if this is the connection you'll be enabling sharing on later. Sharing has to be off for now.)
+ Now go into the properties of whichever connection (in the Network Connections window, not the Network and Sharing Center) is the connection getting internet. As in, the connection your computer actually gets internet from.
+ In the networking tab, click "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)"
+ Click the Properties button.
+ Select "Obtain an IP Address Automatically" and "Obtain DNS server address automatically". (It may be already set to do that. Mine wasn't.)
+ Press "OK" on that window and the earlier one. You should now have just "Network and Sharing Center" and "Network Connections" windows open.
+ Open Mad Developer on the N900
+ Press "Manage USB"
+ Press "Load g_ether".
+ Press "Close"
+ Plug your N900 with the USB cord into your computer.
+ Press outside the selection box that pops up.
( + If this is the first time doing this with the N900 plugged into this USB port, it will say it's installing a driver.)
+ Launch X-Terminal on your N900.
+ Enter "sudo gainroot" or just "root". (This gives you root access.)
+ Type "ifup usb0" and press enter in X-Terminal. (This turns on internet-through-usb on your N900, in layman's terms)
( + You can also skip getting root acces and just type "sudo " before every command you need to run as root - it's just that the only commands you'd need for this are "ifup usb0", "ifdown usb0", and "ping", all of which need root access.)
+ Watch the new connection in either "Network and Sharing Center" or "Network Connections", it should say "Identifying..." for a while, then end up with "Unidentified Network", "Public", with "Limited Connectivity".
+ In the "Network Connections" window on your computer (The one you got to by pressing "Manage network connections" from the Network and Sharing Center), right click the new connection (It should be called Local Area Connection 2), and click properties.
+ Repeat what you did with the internet connection, but on this one, to make it get an IP address and DNS server address automatically. (Also might be already set to that, in which case you can just close that window without changing anything). If you do change it, you may need to wait a minute while the connection is "identified" again.
+ Go back to the properties of the connection that your computer is getting internet from.
+ Go to the sharing tab. You should now have a drop-down selection list under the first checkbox. Select Local Internet Connection 2 in that drop-down list and check the "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection" box.
+ Press OK.
+ On your N900, go to Mad Developer, press the Edit button, and check the "Use DHCP" button.
+ Press Configure.
+ On you computer, in the Network and Sharing Center, press Customize for your Unidentified Network of Local Area Connection 2 that appeared for your N900 after you did the "ifup usb0" step.
+ Check the Private box instead of Public. Vista will ask you for permission to continue when you hit "ok", just press continue as before.
+ Test by entering "ping www.google.com" in your N900's X-Term. (if you want it to stop pingin if it works either press Ctrl+C on your N900 while in X-Term, or close X-Term.)

If your computer is anything like mine, the connection should be saying "Local Only" instead of "Limited Connectivity", and the ping command should've worked. I do not use the dummy connection because the default browser and XTerminal recognize there's internet without it, so I can get programs with apt-get and surf internet just fine. (App manager can still load the app list if you click outside the menu that pops up asking you to select a connection, it just can't download them.)

Mentalist,

I'm also having some problems setting up network connectivity between my PC (windows vista) and my N900.

I followed your steps, the steps proposed by some other threads and even the ReadMe file from NokiaQtSDK. Nevertheless, there are two problems that persist:

1. Whenever I click Load g_ether and the phone is already connected to the PC, the phone re-starts. I've tried to walkaround this issue by clicking Load g_ether and then connecting the phone to the PC via USB, I get the same result: the N900 immediately restarts.

2. This might be related to the problem above but... I can't find any new network connection listed when I connect my phone. I already installed NokiaQtSDK and PC Connectivity.

Any ideas?

1) To spot the culprit just try on another pc. Have you tried using the power kernel instead of stock kernel + mad developer's module ?

2) You see the new network connection after the new NIC is detected and installed, the new network card is detected when the phone with the right module loaded is connected. And if your phone reboots in that moment...

Hmmm. I never had my phone shut down or reboot in correlation between g_ether and/or plugging it in. If you can find another computer, you could try it with that one, and see if it reboots upon loading g_ether and connecting to that computer too...

It could honestly be either the computer or the N900, or some combination of stuff on both ends.

Did you run the ifup usb0 command before loading g_ether or plugging it in by any chance? What I would do first off is run "ifdown usb0" as root before loading g_ether or plugging it in.

It could also be a bad Mad Developer installation, in which case if you can reinstall it, that might help.

Beyond that, I would compare the list of everything we have installed on our devices, to see if there's anything we can find through process of elimination that might be causing the reboot for you.

(Also, I just remembered, I find that I cannot get USB-internet to the N900 if I have FreeSSHd running on my Windows Vista machine. I haven't bothered looking into it, but I have FreeSSHd installed on my windows laptop, and whenever I have it running and loaded as a server, it interferes with Window's internet sharing. Do you have any servers - or clients, for that matter - constantly running on your computer when you try to connect? FTP, SHH, Telnet, whatever-else-exists?)

Solutor and Menatlist,

Thanks a lot for the input. I tried again, but this time with my Macbook and it worked perfectly. Apparently my N900 also likes Mac better than PC.

BTW, once I had it working with my Mac I reinstalled everything (including Power Kernel) and tried again in my PC and still doesn't work.

I wonder if Power Kernel has anything to do with it. I would think not, but I haven't seen enough detailed accounts about USB-Internet-to-N900 experiments either way to know for sure. If it's of any interest, I do not currently use the Power Kernel. Glad it's working on your Mac though. Do you have that app/program installed that automatically disables idle internet connections?

You have to use

#a the stock pr 1.2 kernel + the g_ether module included in the mad developer package.

#b the power kernel which already contains the required module

#c an older firmware, see #b