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Installing Debian on the G1

This was already mentioned by alansj here, but I though it was important enough to have it's own thread
Saurik has created a Debian image you can install onto your sd card. Once installed, you have the full power of debian on your phone. No more puny little busybox
Instructions and such are here.
Thanks Saurik!

I was actually looking into this earlier... let me know how it runs

cant download a few things
can not open ext2.ko......when i type insmod $kit/ext2.ko ...i get "insmod: can't open ' /sdcard/kit/ext2.ko'...some one please help me out

What graphical interface does this install, or is there one?

cbrunner said:
What graphical interface does this install, or is there one?
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That was my question when I heard about this... I just went for it though because when I read through the instructions, I realized that everything is stored in the MicroSD card and in RAM (which is reset when the phone is rebooted)
It turns out that there is no GUI - just a good old text-based Debian install! I'm sure that someone will get one working... or maybe just port the entire BSD Subsystem along with apt so we can just forget the Market...

amgupt01 said:
That was my question when I heard about this... I just went for it though because when I read through the instructions, I realized that everything is stored in the MicroSD card and in RAM (which is reset when the phone is rebooted)
It turns out that there is no GUI - just a good old text-based Debian install! I'm sure that someone will get one working... or maybe just port the entire BSD Subsystem along with apt so we can just forget the Market...
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This awesome article has answered tons of my questions and also seems to imply otherwise:
"This does not replace Android. This also gives you access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be: as an Android device with all the capabilities thereof."​
In addition, this IRC channel is where the author of that article idles.

cbrunner said:
This awesome article has answered tons of my questions and also seems to imply otherwise:
"This does not replace Android. This also gives you access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be: as an Android device with all the capabilities thereof."​
In addition, this IRC channel is where the author of that article idles.
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Right. No gui, but you have a full working linux distro on your phone. You can apt-get just about any of the normal stuff.. You could probably even get a x-windows installation to working, although you would have to connect to it remotely - it would probably be "difficult" to get it to display a gui on the phone itself (although that would be sweet).
I've installed Saurik's image on my phone, it works great. Although if you do the "unionfs.sh" step, the wifi settings don't quite work right anymore. It won't let you enable or disable wifi.
But I was able to get an ssh server (with real user and password management) and even a samba server running on my phone quite easily with this . I've also got gcc installed, and will start playing around with developing directly on the phone (instead of having to cross compile).

Sorry for not being hip to the game, but what the heck is Debian?

donutman said:
Sorry for not being hip to the game, but what the heck is Debian?
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Arguably the most influential distribution of Linux ever. Its package management system, apt, is awesome, and it is what Ubuntu and tons of other distros were started from.
Why would you not use Google before asking here?

can anyone help with my above mentioned problem
i want this baby to run

Is your phone connected to your computer? You lose access to the storage card when it is, I think (you can't cd to it when it's plugged in) and unplugging my phone allowed me to install the module.
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Installing Debian errors?
Here is what I get:
insmod $kit/ext2.ko
insmod: init_module '/sdcard/kit/ext2.ko' failed (Operation not permitted)

i've been through this, i'm not gonna explain what happens and why, but imo, the only way to get a real root is the following:
-Install telnet client to your device (from android market).
-Reboot your phone to be sure no telnet-daemons/shells are running.
-When you are on the desktop, just type "enter", "telnetd", "enter". (If you do it from the terminal app it will run under the uid of the terminal app which is not root).
-Then run the telnet client app, and connect to local host. (Or skip this step + the first one if you wanna connect from another pc)
I know it's weird, but when you run something from the terminal app it runs under the terminal app's uid, even if you run a new shell, you still are eg. "app_33", not root. and btw you will have to set the environment variables all from the same shell, that means you can't have a script cause it will run under another shell, with another uid. I'm so confused... maybe I'm wrong but android is not the most friendly environment.

aggtrfrad said:
i've been through this, i'm not gonna explain what happens and why, but imo, the only way to get a real root is the following:
-Install telnet client to your device (from android market).
-Reboot your phone to be sure no telnet-daemons/shells are running.
-When you are on the desktop, just type "enter", "telnetd", "enter". (If you do it from the terminal app it will run under the uid of the terminal app which is not root).
-Then run the telnet client app, and connect to local host. (Or skip this step + the first one if you wanna connect from another pc)
I know it's weird, but when you run something from the terminal app it runs under the terminal app's uid, even if you run a new shell, you still are eg. "app_33", not root. and btw you will have to set the environment variables all from the same shell, that means you can't have a script cause it will run under another shell, with another uid. I'm so confused... maybe I'm wrong but android is not the most friendly environment.
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Haha I feel you. Now the thing is when I am at the home screen on my G1 i push "Enter" on the keyboard and then type "telnetd" and then push enter again it doesnt do anything. When I open up telnet client on my PC it wont connect with wifi on.
So I then go to Telnet client on myG1 and go to connect to "localhost:23" and it says "Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused" the thing is that my local host for my wifi is not 127.0.0.1:23
And when I "netstat" from inside Terminal Emulator there is no address with port "23"

ballaholyk84 said:
Haha I feel you. Now the thing is when I am at the home screen on my G1 i push "Enter" on the keyboard and then type "telnetd" and then push enter again it doesnt do anything. When I open up telnet client on my PC it wont connect with wifi on.
So I then go to Telnet client on myG1 and go to connect to "localhost:23" and it says "Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused" the thing is that my local host for my wifi is not 127.0.0.1:23
And when I "netstat" from inside Terminal Emulator there is no address with port "23"
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Are you already running RC30?

SplasPood said:
Are you already running RC30?
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Yes, I am running the Modified RC30 posted by JesusFreke

cbrunner said:
Why would you not use Google before asking here?
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Because I wanted you to tell me baby. That is what a wife is suppose to do.

JesusFreke said:
Right. No gui, but you have a full working linux distro on your phone. You can apt-get just about any of the normal stuff.. You could probably even get a x-windows installation to working, although you would have to connect to it remotely - it would probably be "difficult" to get it to display a gui on the phone itself (although that would be sweet).
I've installed Saurik's image on my phone, it works great. Although if you do the "unionfs.sh" step, the wifi settings don't quite work right anymore. It won't let you enable or disable wifi.
But I was able to get an ssh server (with real user and password management) and even a samba server running on my phone quite easily with this . I've also got gcc installed, and will start playing around with developing directly on the phone (instead of having to cross compile).
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What command did you use to get the SSH to install? Every time I do the one in the tut by saurik it errors and wont install all the way. I get an error after x11-common and it wont finish.

ballaholyk84 said:
So I then go to Telnet client on myG1 and go to connect to "localhost:23" and it says "Error while connecting to server: localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - Connection refused" the thing is that my local host for my wifi is not 127.0.0.1:23
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localhost usually refers to the loopback interface which on most devices will be 127.0.0.1.

I'm getting the same thing here... I think there's something wrong with apt-get having to write to /tmp which does not exist (and is mounted read-only).

USB tethering without root (not SOCK5)

This is a program I wrote a while back that allows transparent tethering over USB without requiring root access. It works by simulating an unencrypted OpenVPN server and then internally running everything through a Java-based NAT. I get decent speeds off it, but your mileage may vary. It's a bit beta! Might explode! Wear eye protection!
It has a really basic website at http://lfx.org/azilink/, but to spare your eyes I'll just paste the instructions below:
Required files:
- ADB from the 1.1 SDK or from http://lfx.org/azilink/adb.zip
- OpenVPN 2.1 (not 2.0) from http://openvpn.net/index.php/downloads.html
- AziLink.apk from http://lfx.org/azilink/azilink.apk
- AziLink.ovpn from http://lfx.org/azilink/azilink.ovpn
Installation:
1) Install OpenVPN on the host. I use version 2.1_rc15, but any version should work. Apparently if you use version 2.0 you'll need to remove the NO_DELAY option from the AziLink.ovpn configuration file. You can find OpenVPN at:
http://openvpn.net/index.php/downloads.html
2) Enable USB debugging on the phone. From the home screen, this is under
Settings>Applications>Development>USB debugging.
3) Install the Android USB driver (if you don't already have one installed).
See http://code.google.com/android/intro/develop-and-debug.html#developingondevicehardware
4) Install the program. You can either use ADB to install by typing
"adb install azilink.apk" with the file in the current directory, or you can browse (on the phone!) to: http://lfx.org/azilink/azilink.apk
Either way you might need to allow installation from unknown sources
under Settings>Applications>Unknown Sources.
Configuration steps:
1) On the host, run "adb forward tcp:41927 tcp:41927" to set up port forwarding. Be sure to use adb from the Android 1.1 SDK! The version from 1.0 will lock up under heavy load. If you don't want to download the entire SDK, you can get a copy of ADB+drivers from http://lfx.org/azilink/adb.zip
2) On the phone, run AziLink and make sure "Service active" is checked.
3) Right click AziLink.ovpn on the host (not in the web browser!) and select "Start OpenVPN on this configuration file." You can find this file at: http://lfx.org/azilink/azilink.ovpn. If you're using Linux or, god forbid, MacOS, you'll also need to manually set the nameserver to 192.168.56.1 (the phone's NAT IP address).

Nice work around.

Wow, amazing work! I'll definitely have to mess around with this tomorrow...

OpenVPN 2.0.9
Thnx for the manual..!! Took me something to get it working, i'll find out, that it isn't working with OpenVPN version 2.0.9
OpenVPN 2.0.9 doesn't recognize the following rule in azilink.ovpn:
socket-flags TCP_NODELAY
And it worked with version 2.1rc15...
So no more Internet Sharing on Windows Mobile...

OpenVPN 2.0.9
Thnx for the manual..!! Took me sometime to get it working, i'll find out, that it isn't working with OpenVPN version 2.0.9
OpenVPN 2.0.9 doesn't recognize the following rule in azilink.ovpn:
socket-flags TCP_NODELAY
And it worked with version 2.1rc15...
So no more Internet Sharing on Windows Mobile...

help
Ok I'm a complete noob and I've played about with this but can't get it to work. How do I run adb? As in the very first step? Where do I type that. Do I need to install adb and how do I do it?
Thanks

Got it working
Man this is awesome.
I realised i needed to run the adb from cmd. see when i tried to open adb.exe it just kept closing.
thanks alot. this rocks
ps im writing this off my tethered pc

zecbmo said:
Ok I'm a complete noob and I've played about with this but can't get it to work. How do I run adb? As in the very first step? Where do I type that. Do I need to install adb and how do I do it?
Thanks
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Nah, you can just unzip adb and run it directly from that folder. It's a command line program, so you'd need to run it from a command prompt (cmd.exe). I'm not sure whether adb needs to run as an administrator or not (I disable all that UAC garbage in Vista). If you have the proper driver installed, then the ADB command should return immediately without saying anything. If it says "waiting for device..." that means it wasn't able to find the Android debug driver.
I know this is all a bit hacky, but now that we've got root and wifi tethering I figured that there wouldn't be too much interest.

cheers
its working great like. im using this cus i havent rooted my phone yet. tethering was the only reason why i wanted to root it but this is a great alternative

Works Great. Thanks for the easy instructions.

Here is translation of post on Russian with images http://androidteam.ru/faq/azilink-tethering-with-android-usb.html
I have repacked all in one zip, and make some command files to make process a little easy.

another trick that may help on XP machines, probably other versions as well.
Create a shortcut to adb.exe on your windows desktop (mine is located in C:\and\tools)
Modify the 'target' (right-click,properties) of the shortcut to read C:\and\tools\adb.exe forward tcp:41927 tcp:41927 <I think this is the right code, I'm still using tetherbot on 1080>
That's it. Once everything's set up connecting is easy. one click on the computer, no cmds required

does this allow for media such as flash on web site to play on the laptop?

clevetbs said:
does this allow for media such as flash on web site to play on the laptop?
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If you've got enough bandwidth. I'm not really sure what bitrate flash video runs at though.

Many thanks for this, aziwoqpd. I've not had the time to root, but have been looking for an easy way to tether. A usb connection is great, since the battery drains so quickly anyway it's nice to keep a charge going.
sonikamd - thanks for the suggestion, it's a great idea. Unfortunately my XP doesn't want to accept your syntax. I wish I could offer something else, but my skills (ha!) are nonexistant. I'm embarassed to say that I had to refresh my memory on how to maneuver around command lines...
Got any other suggestions?
Thanks again for all your work!

the AziLink.ovpn file wont download for me.

works fine for me, GREAT WORK!

Okay, so I'm trying this out on a mac. I've successfully built openvpn and have my tunneling device (/dev/tun0, /dev/tun1, etc.). I run the adb forward command and it starts the daemon successfully, I fire up azilink on the phone and it says it's waiting for the connection, I fire up openvpn and the phone changes to stating that it's connected. Openvpn does not exit out - it starts the tunnel - BUT in the logging it reports " ROUTE: problem writing to routing socket" twice (which oddly appears to be a non-fatal error to the application), and traffic is unable to flow. I'm guessing it's something about openvpn not correctly manipulating the darwin routing tables, but I've been unsuccessful thus far in figuring out the nature of the problem so I thought I'd check here.
I'm running the straight azilink openvpn config file, which means if I need any syntactical changes for darwin I haven't applied them. The openvpn documentation is not terribly good and I was unable to find any documentation of routing command differences for MacOS (if that's even the problem, of course).
Edit: I forgot to mention, I've been trying to ping known-good IPs by address to test the routing - after my first attempt at loading a web page failed I figured it best to remove name services from the possible list of problems. The bytes sent count was slowly incrementing (up to about 23K bytes in ten minutes of diagnosis), and the inbound count got up to about 900 bytes in the same period, so clearly *something* was getting through - unless those counters are counting all traffic into and out of the phone and just going over the cable - but I got no ping responses, no websites could load, and by all appearances from the terminal, no data was moving.

lindsayt said:
I'm running the straight azilink openvpn config file, which means if I need any syntactical changes for darwin I haven't applied them. The openvpn documentation is not terribly good and I was unable to find any documentation of routing command differences for MacOS (if that's even the problem, of course).
Edit: I forgot to mention, I've been trying to ping known-good IPs by address to test the routing - after my first attempt at loading a web page failed I figured it best to remove name services from the possible list of problems. The bytes sent count was slowly incrementing (up to about 23K bytes in ten minutes of diagnosis), and the inbound count got up to about 900 bytes in the same period, so clearly *something* was getting through - unless those counters are counting all traffic into and out of the phone and just going over the cable - but I got no ping responses, no websites could load, and by all appearances from the terminal, no data was moving.
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The byte counters only include traffic that OpenVPN is forwarding, so something is making it over. Did you try changing the DNS server to either 192.168.56.1 or an external address like 4.2.2.2? OpenVPN on MacOS and Linux won't set the nameserver automatically.
Also, there's a bit of a problem with pinging. The app on the phone can't generate ICMP ping packets since it isn't running as root. When you send an ICMP ping, the phone translates it to a UDP ping, sends it, and translates the reply back to a ICMP ping. Unfortunately, probably about 50% of hosts don't reply to UDP pings. Some that I've tested with that do work are lfx.org and he.net.
I'll see if I can give it a quick test on a Mac sometime tomorrow.
EDIT: I managed to get it working, although T-Mobile's so-called "transparent" web proxy is barely working today so I was having trouble accessing websites without getting errors. SSH was working fine, though. Anyway, here's what I did:
1- Installed a MacOS port of OpenVPN called Tunnelblick (didn't have XCode handy to compile my own and it's got a pretty GUI)
2- Copied azilink.ovpn to /users/azi/library/openvpn or whatever it is
3- Click the Tunnelblick icon in the upper-right, go to details, click "set nameserver"
4- Remove the TCP_NODELAY line because it was complaining that my kernel didn't support it (and would cause my connection to timeout after about 30 seconds).
5- Clicked connect
If you want to see what traffic's going over openvpn, you can just run "sudo tcpdump -n -i tun0"

wow ... this works great ... tested using a german G1 under linux (arch 686), win vista (x64) & win xp (x86) ... pretty good speed and low latency (actually i can't notice any latency at all - no mather if using wlan or 3g)!
GREAT WORK!!!

iPod and G1 syncing

I use my G1 and iPod Touch hand and hand. I share my G1s internet over wifi. Basically I want to create a script that will ssh from my G1 to my Touch then copy the contents of say my images folder to my Touch. This way keeping my iPod and G1 in sync over wifi. I'm wondering what would be the easiest way of doing it, creating a cron script that pings for my iPod's IP and if returned would start a SSH connection and auto copy my pictures? Any idea's?
Note: I was also thinking maybe creating a custom tether app based off the wifi tethering app available that when tethering was activated it would ping periodically for my iPod's IP. That way I could avoid the hassles of cron under the Android Environment and I would only be trying to sync when my G1 is tethering.

G1 has nothing to share with ipod, pervert

...right. I don't think you can do cron jobs on android or host a ssh server natively but you might be able to mount debian on your sdcard and then do everything from in there. rsync is popular for this.

jusplainmike said:
I use my G1 and iPod Touch hand and hand. I share my G1s internet over wifi. Basically I want to create a script that will ssh from my G1 to my Touch then copy the contents of say my images folder to my Touch. This way keeping my iPod and G1 in sync over wifi. I'm wondering what would be the easiest way of doing it, creating a cron script that pings for my iPod's IP and if returned would start a SSH connection and auto copy my pictures? Any idea's?
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Basically, yeah. Could be easier / more elegant to build a Java app that runs in the background, pinging the ip. To copy via ssh you need scp, which is included in my JF 1.43 ADP1.1 flash.
Then just
Code:
scp -i /sdcard/android_id.seckey -r [email protected]:/wherever/the/files/are/ /sdcard/where/i/want/them
You'd need to supply a public key without password protection (in my example android_id.seckey) to the iPod, which usually is a significant security risk. Maybe in case of your iPod, not so much though.
jusplainmike said:
Note: I was also thinking maybe creating a custom tether app based off the wifi tethering app available that when tethering was activated it would ping periodically for my iPod's IP. That way I could avoid the hassles of cron under the Android Environment and I would only be trying to sync when my G1 is tethering.
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That's possible as well, but it's more complicated since you'd have to adapt to changes to WiFiTether / G1Tether. Also, that app might need root, while the other approach probably wouldn't, but would only work when both devices are connected to an access point where IPs are DHCP'd statically.
Interesting problem.

d00m said:
...right. I don't think you can do cron jobs on android or host a ssh server natively but you might be able to mount debian on your sdcard and then do everything from in there. rsync is popular for this.
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The iPod host the ssh server, I would only have to SSH from the G1 and android actually has a cron service, I can't remember what it is of the top of my head exactly.

While trying to scp I get this error:
/system/bin/ssh: No such file or directory
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Yet I can ssh from my G1

dropbear

I've got dropbear, ssh and scp running on my Epic so I thought I'd share.
http://www.elkins.org/dropbear.tar.gz
It's pretty simple to install:
0. Login as root
1. mount /system as rw
2. copy dropbear.tar.gz to /system/bin
3. cd /system/bin
4. tar xvf dropbear.tar.gz
Once that's done, you'll need to issue two commands:
1. /system/bin/mkdropbear.sh -- this command sets up your /data/dropbear directory and only has to be run once.
2. /system/bin/dropbear.sh -- This command needs to be run at system boot to start dropbear. It sets up dropbear with a default password of yourpass. You may want to edit dropbear.sh and change this. To start dropbear at boot, add the line dropbear.sh to Joey's playlogo script.
I haven't been able to get a passwordless login to work. Also, scp does not work directly on the phone. However, from your OS X /Linux pc you can:
scp yourphoneip:/directory/file . -- this copies a file from the phone to your pc
scp filename yourphoneip:/data/local -- this copies a file from your pc to the phone
when you try to ssh/scp directly from the phone to a pc it chokes on /dev/random or /dev/urandom. Not sure what's causing this...

what is it?

sweet thx! i'll give it a shot
whosdaman: its a ssh server

jgaikwad said:
sweet thx! i'll give it a shot
whosdaman: its a ssh server
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A server running on a phone??? really?

Whosdaman said:
A server running on a phone??? really?
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It's actually pretty common.

jocala said:
It's actually pretty common.
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So what is an ssh server though, is that like a backup sever, or an email server or what can it be used as?

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So what is an ssh server though, is that like a backup sever, or an email server or what can it be used as?
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It allows you to remotely login to a device and more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell

Whosdaman said:
So what is an ssh server though, is that like a backup sever, or an email server or what can it be used as?
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It stands for "Secure SHell"
It's a remote terminal for your phone. You can use SCP to copy files to/from the phone, and with dropbear (or any SSH server for that matter) you can SSH into your phone and get shell access.
Not very useful for the average user, but pretty cool if you're a power user
EDIT: Well seems like jocala beat me to it but yeah

Geniusdog254 said:
It stands for "Secure SHell"
It's a remote terminal for your phone. You can use SCP to copy files to/from the phone, and with dropbear (or any SSH server for that matter) you can SSH into your phone and get shell access.
Not very useful for the average user, but pretty cool if you're a power user
EDIT: Well seems like jocala beat me to it but yeah
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Well I'm a developer and all and I'm just gathering as much information as I can and collecting everything I can find. However, I work for an indirect dealer for Sprint and I have basically sold all of my co-workers on getting the Samsung Epic. And our store itself has 8 servers it is running due to the other half being a business phone system. So I think the head guy and a few of the others might be very interested

[INFO] OpenVPN

I just got OpenVPN working and thought I would share:
Rooted
Installed tun.ko
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063656
Note: Skip this step if you are running Prime or any other ROM with the tun.ko module pre-installed.
Installed BusyBox using BusyBox Installer (Market). Installed to /system/xbin
Installed OpenVPN using OpenVPN Installer (Market) to /system/xbin
Installed OpenVPN Settings (Market)
Replaced OpenVPN binary with the one from:
http://code.google.com/p/android-openvpn-settings/issues/detail?id=26
UnBZ2'ed the file (I used 7-Zip on Windows for this)
adb remount
adb push openvpn-static-2.1.1 /system/xbin/openvpn
adb shell
chmod 555 /system/xbin/openvpn
Created /system/xbin/bb directory (requested in research I did, not sure if required)
mkdir /system/xbin/bb
Symlinked Busybox ifconfig and route /system/xbin/bb
ln -s /system/xbin/ifconfig /system/xbin/bb/ifconfig
ln -s /system/xbin/route /system/xbin/bb/route
Set up my usual OVPN config (configs must have absolute paths to certs!)
OpenVPN settings > Advanced > Load tun kernel module ON
OpenVPN settings > Advanced > TUN module settings
Load module using > insmod
Path to tun module > /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
I think this is everything I did, there was a bit of trial and error so I may have forgotten something.
Checked and the thing still boots afterward

Thanks a lot , will report back when i try it.

I get
insmod: init_module '/system/lib/modules/tun.ko' failed (Exec format error)

Assuming you have installed BusyBox, check the md5sum of your tun.ko:
# cd /system/lib/modules
# md5sum tun.ko
Response should be (or at least this is what I get):
7e09817dc4661b732f1a77fff76a10e6 tun.ko
If you don't get that response, I suggest you re-download the tun module, decompress it again and re-push it to your Transformer.

Busybox is installed. Tried both installers and both versions.
Md5sum is right.
Any other ideas?

Are you running stock? If you are running a different kernel the module probably won't work.

Thanks worked a treat

thanks works perfect

I am getting my Transformer within a week. Can't wait to get this going on the device... Thanks a ton!

It's running and connected but my IP is still showing up as my regular ISP 3G IP when I open a browser and go to www.ipchicken.com
Any idea why the traffic doesn't appear to be routing through it?
It shows as 100% connected and the key icon is white in the taskbar...

duckdown said:
Any idea why the traffic doesn't appear to be routing through it?
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The default behaviour of OpenVPN is not to install a default route pointing out of the tun interface, unless the system you're connected to has IP forwarding and NAT enabled this wouldn't work anyway.
I can't post links, so google "openvpn config" and go to the first link. Look for the section titled: "Routing all client traffic (including web-traffic) through the VPN."

Hey man, thanks for the reply.
The directions said to add this line to the config file
Code:
push "redirect-gateway def1"
But I've done that and it still doesn't seem to be doing anything.. IP is still showing up as my regular 3G network
Am I doing something wrong or omitting a step that you can notice?
Thanks again for the help

Oh, hm, on second look it wants me to add that line to the SERVER's config file.
I have no access to the servers config file -- I pay $4 a month for my VPN and do not run the OpenVPN server myself.
Is there anything I can do from the client side?
It works perfectly fine in Windows, routing all traffic through the VPN as it should..

duckdown said:
Oh, hm, on second look it wants me to add that line to the SERVER's config file.
I have no access to the servers config file -- I pay $4 a month for my VPN and do not run the OpenVPN server myself.
Is there anything I can do from the client side?
It works perfectly fine in Windows, routing all traffic through the VPN as it should..
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You might actually be able to just use the "redirect-gateway local def1" line in your own config, as I understand it the "push" directives in the server conf are just sending config to the clients which could just as easily be done client side. I might be wrong, but it's worth a go. Otherwise you can set up routes in the client config too, but you may have to remove your existing default route via some scripting or something.

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You might actually be able to just use the "redirect-gateway local def1" line in your own config, as I understand it the "push" directives in the server conf are just sending config to the clients which could just as easily be done client side. I might be wrong, but it's worth a go. Otherwise you can set up routes in the client config too, but you may have to remove your existing default route via some scripting or something.
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This is correct, I have this and the exact same conf works fine on my desktop.
However on my tablet no data gets routed. Also my tray is getting spammed with "Connected".

Kevincod said:
This i correct, I have this and the exact same conf works fine on my desktop.
However on my tablet no data gets routed. Also my tray is getting spammed with "Connected".
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I forgot the part with the modified openvpn, I replaced the binary and the routing works great now, however I still get spammed with "Connected" in the tray.
Seems to be a common issue: http://code.google.com/p/android-openvpn-settings/issues/detail?id=74#c0

I can't get the traffic to go through the VPN for the life of me.. This thing is mental

Check out thread 1118465, in The general section. Found that /system/bin/ip was not setting up route/gateway correctly, and openvpn was not using the busybox ip
fix: mv /system/bin/ip /system/bin/ip.bay
This then forces use of busybox ip. Worked for me.

PowellEB said:
Check out thread 1118465, in The general section. Found that /system/bin/ip was not setting up route/gateway correctly, and openvpn was not using the busybox ip
fix: mv /system/bin/ip /system/bin/ip.bay
This then forces use of busybox ip. Worked for me.
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We had to do the same thing to get Cisco VPN working. the system IP was not routing properly, so renaming it forced using the busybox IP