iphone will not tether to macbook pro over USB or bluetooth

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iphone will not tether to macbook pro over USB or bluetooth

Having issues getting the iphone to tether to my macbook pro (RUnning OSX 10.6.8) iTunes version 11.0.2.

I can tether using wireless, but can not tether to MB Pro using USB (prefered) or Bluetooth. Bluetooth looks like it connects .. but can not use network.

I know it is not my iphone because all 3 tethering modes wireless/BT/USB work on my windows laptop.

I have run disk utility to repair the filesystem / file permissions if needed.

Just totally stumped on how to diagnose this further. I do see these in the messages log

13-03-11 11:45:34 AMcom.apple.usbmuxd[42]USBDeviceOpen failed: 0xe00002c5

iTunes can see and sync with the iphone over USB .. so no problem there.

iphone iOS 6.1.2

MacBook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.6.5), 8GB / 2.66MHz Intel Core i7

Posted on Mar 11, 2013 9:16 AM

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sbeaton Author

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Mar 13, 2013 7:37 AM in response to sbeaton

iPhone is saying now it is tethered via bluetooth, and the Mac says connected. But no IP address is assigned .. hence no network access.

I am getting this error in my messages (hopefully someone knows a solution) I would rebuild the OS.. but I dont have the time right now to try that.

Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost (error 0xdc008016)

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sbeaton Author

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Mar 14, 2013 8:55 AM in response to sbeaton

Solved my problem .. I believe I had an application (Checkpoint VPN Client) that I think was causing my macbook to come up in 32bit mode .. I forced 64bit by holding down the 6 & 4 keys while powering on .. and my tethering now works and my VPN client is now broken (which I dont care about anyway) .. uninstalled the VPN client and hopefully thngs are good again

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