Jailbreaking over MobileHotspot

After buying an iPhone 3gS today, I took my 6 year old to Chuck-E-Cheese’s as I had promised last week; even though I find its ambience utterly unbearable.

In order to use the 3gS on T-Mobile, I had planned to jailbreak it after getting home. But while hanging out at ChuckE, in the midst of the yelling, crying and laughing kids, it occurred to me that a jailbreak using a hotspot tether over 3G is entirely possible!

So I whipped out the N900, fired up MobileHotspot, and laid it on the table away from the pizza and soda stains while my son was busy dropping tokens in mindless games. After its usual set of annoyances, the Hotspot started; and the iPhone duly picked it up. It was then simply a matter of going to jailbreakme.com and sliding to begin

T-Mobile’s connection, thankfully, remained solid during the download and the process completed painlessly.

Once again, the N900 brought joy.

Tether a Mac’s internet connection via USB

The Mac makes it easy to share its internet connection with any other device it is connected to. If you want the N900 to share a Mac’s Ethernet or Wifi internet connection over USB, this is what you need to do:

1. Connect the N900 to the Mac and select PC Suite Mode.

2. Setup USB Networking if you haven’t already. Make sure you can ping the N900 (192.168.2.15) from the Mac.

3. Setup Internet Sharing according to this Lifehacker post with one difference – select N900 (PC Suite Mode):

Ethernet

Wifi

4. The N900 should now be able to access the internet.