When I plugged my Samsung Captivate into my OS X machine I was surprised to see a network connection dialog pop up on my laptop and what looked like a tethering app pop up on the device. Given that AT&T tries to kill off tethering in every way possible with the iPhone, I figured it wouldn’t be on with my Captivate either. Or at least not easy to get working. No problem though. I just needed to figure out which set of settings to put in the network connection dialogs in OS X.
In the main network settings screen under System Preferences:
- leave telephone number blank
- use ‘WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM’ for Account Name
- use ‘CINGULAR1′ for Password
Then click the advanced button and setup:
- Vendor generic
- Model GPRS (GSM/3G)
- APN is ‘wap.cingular’
- CID set to 1
After that starting up a network session with my Captivate attached over USB yielded a pretty quick network connection! Now if only they could fix these GPS issues….
Hey man, thanks for the tip on the OS X tethering. I too was surprised to see it pop up on my Mac when I plugged it in. Thanks for publishing the settings, I was able to get it tethered under Linux on my work machine without issue, but I wanted to be able to tether it on my Mac as well, but I didn’t know what the settings were.
This for above comment the setting is under systemn prefrences. Then network that u should be able to see the service on your left side of the window that u just opend.
Is it free doing it this way?
Hey, good to know. Thanks!
If you are tethering a Samsung Captivate on AT&T’s network while running MAC OS X, you no doubt realize how seemingly impossible to accomplish this task is. Yet, by no more than roughly 6 hours of work, I have accomplished it!
Here’s what you’ll need:
1) Samsung Captivate
2) Legit Tethering Plan with AT&T
3) Boot-Camp*
4) Copy of Windows Parallels
5) Copy of Windows XP or better
Steps:
1. Install Windows via Bootcamp
2. Boot into Windows
3. Attach phone via USB
4. In phone go to > Settings > WiFi > Tethering > Turn it on
5. Open up Network Connections and turn OFF Firewall
6. Disable your wifi connection and test your tethering on Windows… it should now work.
7. Install Windows Parrallels (you can get a trial version from their website)
8. Configure your boot-camp version of Windows soft to run from Parallels from MAC OS X (Parallels walks you through this).
9. Turn off your wifi connection in MAC OS X
10. Make sure phone is attached and make sure tethering is turned on while running Parallels.
11. Test connection, it should now work.
Yes, for the mere cost of the cheapest version of Parallels, as well as the cheapest version of Windows XP, Mac users tethering a Samsung Captivate may now join the 21st century of computer… without doing that b.s. to their phone like rooting or or other sh&t I don’t understand, but probably could.
*Probably possible without having Boot-camp installed, but that’s not how I accomplished it.