1.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Gavin Atkinson 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 8.\" - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above 11.\" copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following 12.\" disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided 13.\" with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 16.\" "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 17.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS 18.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 19.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 20.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 21.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 22.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 23.\" CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN 25.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 26.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.Dd November 24, 2015 31.Dt IPHETH 4 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm ipheth 35.Nd "USB Apple iPhone/iPad tethered Ethernet driver" 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the 38following line in 39.Xr loader.conf 5 : 40.Bd -literal -offset indent 41if_ipheth_load="YES" 42.Ed 43.Pp 44Alternatively, to compile this driver into the kernel, place the 45following lines in your kernel configuration file: 46.Bd -ragged -offset indent 47.Cd "device uhci" 48.Cd "device ohci" 49.Cd "device usb" 50.Cd "device miibus" 51.Cd "device uether" 52.Cd "device ipheth" 53.Ed 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55The 56.Nm 57driver provides support for network access through Apple 58iPhone and iPad devices, often referred to as USB tethering. 59.Pp 60.Nm 61should work with any Apple iPhone or iPad device. 62In most cases this must be explicitly enabled on the device first. 63.Pp 64For more information on configuring this device, see 65.Xr ifconfig 8 . 66The device does not support different media types or options. 67.Sh HARDWARE 68The following devices are supported by the 69.Nm 70driver: 71.Pp 72.Bl -bullet -compact 73.It 74Apple iPhone tethering (all models) 75.It 76Apple iPad tethering (all models) 77.El 78.Sh SEE ALSO 79.Xr arp 4 , 80.Xr cdce 4 , 81.Xr intro 4 , 82.Xr netintro 4 , 83.Xr urndis 4 , 84.Xr usb 4 , 85.Xr ifconfig 8 , 86.Xr usbconfig 8 87.Sh HISTORY 88The 89.Nm 90device driver first appeared in 91.Fx 8.2 . 92.Sh AUTHORS 93.An -nosplit 94The 95.Nm 96driver was written by 97.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hselasky@FreeBSD.org . 98.Sh BUGS 99Some devices may need to be manually configured to use an alternative 100configuration with the 101.Xr usbconfig 8 102utility. 103A command similar to 104.Dl usbconfig -u 1 -a 2 set_config 3 105may be required if the device is not recognised automatically by 106.Nm 107after it is connected. 108