Missing TCP/IP settings for iPhone tethering (Bluetooth and USB)

No you are not alone. I'm in Canada where tethering was enabled on the Rogers network I and was happily using since iPhone OS 3.0 came out.

Since my upgrade to Mac OS 10.6, tethering is not working. It started when I couldn't get the USB tether to work after upgrading and booting in 64bit mode, so I removed my device from the network preferences list and removed my iPhone from the Bluetooth devices list then re-added the iPhone as a BT device. Now tethering via BT or USB is not working. BT is showing that I can connect to my iPhone network, and when I do, I get the blue "Internet Tethering" bar on my iPhone, but no IP is assigned to my MBP.

Booted in 32 bit mode and it still doesn't work.

This is very frustrating.

Hopefully OS X 10.6.1 will fix this, but I'm not holding my breath until AT&T lets it happen in the USA. Only then will it become a priority (imo).

I got this to work again (in fact, I'm tethered right now 🙂

Here are the steps I followed:
1) Upgraded to iTunes 9
2) Upgraded iPhone to OS 3.1
3) Removed device from Bluetooth Devices list on my MBP
4) Removed Bluetooth PAN from Network preferences
5) Restarted iPhone and MBP
6) Set-up iPhone as a Bluetooth Device on MBP
7) Enabled tethering on iPhone
8) Connected to iPhone network via the Bluetooth icon on my MBP menu bar
9) Verified that the blue "Internet Tethering" bar was on the iPhone
10) Manually added Bluetooth PAN to my MBP network preferences (connect show as yellow, "IP cannot be assigned" message)
11) Opened the Advanced pane and clicked the "Renew DHCP Lease" button
12) IP was assigned!

I'm not sure if the first two steps contributed to the solution or not, but these are the steps that worked for me.

Good luck to you all...

I just did a fresh install to Snow Leopard. I can set TCP/IP for bluetooth tethering but not USB. I am in trouble since my carrier DNS are always screwed up (can't resolve a lot of names, including google) and tethering via bluetooth will dry my phone's battery very quickly.

Ok guys I found the light:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050621051643993

I could successfully set my dns resolver to opendns and get rid of my carrier faulty one.

Thanks for listing these steps. I was already updated, so I skipped down to the 'renew DHCP lease' step and it worked perfectly. Also saved me a trip to local Apple store!

My definitive guide:

http://ifeghali.blogspot.com/2009/10/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard-iphone-usb.html