Access Internet on android phone by connecting it to laptop?

Question

My latop is connected to a wired modem for internet. I want to access internet on my android phone.

Can i do it by connecting my Android to laptop via usb cable and then enabling tethering.

Edit:

Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04

Answer 1

You will need do a reverse tether. As far as I know, the phone must be rooted for this to be done.

Here are instructions at XDA Developers - HOWTO: Ubuntu USB reverse tethering

Answer 2

Here's the closest to a "one-click" solution that I got to.

Prerequisites

• Rooted Android device

• Root access on the PC

• ADB installed on the PC (apt-get install android-tools-adb on Debian-based distros)

• USB Debugging enabled on Android

Procedure

1. Connect Android device to the PC via USB
2. Enable USB tethering on the Android device (Settings)

3. Run the following script:

   #!/bin/bash
   
   WAN="wlan1"       # interface providing internet connection on the PC
   LAN="usb0"        # usb interface on the PC
   AND="rndis0"      # usb interface on Android
   
   LAN_IP="10.0.0.1"
   AND_IP="10.0.0.10"
   NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
   
   DNS1="8.8.8.8"
   DNS2="8.8.4.4"
   
   sudo su -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
   sudo iptables -F -t nat
   sudo iptables -F FORWARD
   sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $WAN -j MASQUERADE
   sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i $WAN -o $LAN -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
   sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i $LAN -o $WAN -j ACCEPT
   
   sudo ifconfig $LAN $LAN_IP netmask $NETMASK up
   
   adb shell su -c busybox ifconfig $AND $AND_IP netmask $NETMASK up
   adb shell su -c busybox route add default gw $LAN_IP
   adb shell su -c ndc resolver setifdns $AND "" $DNS1 $DNS2
   adb shell su -c ndc resolver setdefaultif $AND
   
   adb shell ping -c4 $DNS1
   adb shell ping -c4 google.com
   

4. Done!

Notes

• You probably need to adjust the interface names LAN, WAN and AND.

• I found that some apps would either not recognize the network connection or only work partially. I was able to fool them using Fake Wifi Connection module for the Xposed Framework