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I can tether fine to Windows 7, but on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion, it does not recognize the USB network. I can install Easy-Tether (Lite) but that comes with some restrictions (e.g. no secure web pages, so no gmail), so I'd like to use the built in tethering of Cyanogenmod 7 that I have on my Android phone.
Is there anyway to fix the Mac OS X Mountain Lion install so that it properly recognizes the USB network connection?
The following app has a very detailed setup guide that you need to follow carefully to make usb tethering work on Android.
I've tested this with my own Nexus S (2.3.6) and Lion 10.7.2. It works great!
Also, no root access is needed.
You really have to give credit to the developers. They went as far as to write drivers for Mac OS to get this work!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mstream.easytether_beta&hl=en
I was having virtually the same problem and it turns out Chrome was the cause.
I'm using an Xbox 360 controller on Mountain Lion with the tattiebogle driver. Recently, my controller would just cease to respond, even though it was showing as connected and no amount of disconnecting/re-connecting would fix the problem; the only thing that seemed to work was a re-boot.
I was doing some research earlier and came across this post. I found it hard to believe that Chrome would be the cause, but sure enough, the controller has stopped working twice now and both times I closed down Chrome, re-connected, and all is fine again! Thanks for your post, it helped me a lot!
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I'm guessing this isn't your preference, but the paid version of Easy Tether comes with the appropriate Mac OS X kernel extensions - so you could just pay the one time fee (currently $10) to have this feature programmed by someone who has done the work.
I'm fine with you not selecting this answer, but wanted it here for others that might need a solution that gets around the restrictions in the Lite version of the tethering software.