This is a quick tutorial to help you with iPhone tethering for your PC or Mac. Please note this is against AT&T’s data usage policy. You could get charged with usage fees. Use at your own risk. You’ve been warned.

1. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G (or first gen iPhone running the 2.0 software). Install OpenSSH via Cydia. (OpenSSH gives you command line access to your device)
2. Create an ad-hoc network on your computer. On Macs, just click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menubar and select “Create Network.” On Windows, set up internet connection sharing.
3. Join the iPhone to this network via Wi-Fi as usual.
4. On the iPhone, under Settings->Wi-Fi, select the network you have joined to view connection details. Write down its IP address.
5. From the Mac’s Terminal, run the following command:
   ssh -ND 9999 root@IPHONE_IPADDR
   but replace IPHONE_IPADDR with the IP you wrote down in step 4. Login. The default root password is alpine; you should really login normally over SSH and change this.
   Windows users: the free SSH client Putty will allow you to accomplish this same step. Don’t install Cygwin+OpenSSH as some suggest, that’s massive overkill.
6. Configure your browser to use a SOCKS5 proxy server at localhost:9999.
7. Surf.

Again, this is against AT&T’s data usage policy. Use at your own risk!

- source: lifehacker.com

The guys over at iUnlocked.org have put together this step-by-step guide on how to upgrade a 1.1.4 or previous 1st generation EDGE iPhone NOT 3G to the iPhone 2.0 firmware on Windows using WinPwn. I’ve updated the links in this guide from the original so no torrent searching will be necessary to acquire everything you need.

Step 1: Use WinPWN 1.0 To PWN Your 1.1.4 iPhone. If you need WinPWN Get it here: WinPwn v1.0.0.3 RC1 Download

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The ever popular iPhone Dev Team has released their XPWN 0.3 Sources to the public. This is the firmware 2.0 version of their cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility.

We’ve tested it on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G thus far, but since it uses the same FirmwareBundles files as PwnageTool, and we know those work for the iPod touch, there ought not be any problems.

The real significance of this to people who don’t know how to use the command line, is that others can now begin creation of easy to use one click solutions for the iPhone 2.0 on any platform they wish.
iUnlocked.org had this comment on the release:

This release means that we at iunlocked.org will begin work on writing a GUI wrapper for the Windows Platform to perform the operations needed to create PWNED ipsw restore files.

I’m sure we’ll have plenty of software to report on in the next few weeks so make sure to check back!

This guide is for how to upgrade a 1.1.4 or previous 1st generation EDGE iPhone NOT 3G to the iPhone 2.0 firmware using PwnageTool 2.0.1 by the iPhone Dev Team.

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The iphone-dev team has released PwnageTool 2.0.1 for folks who experienced problems with the earlier version.

PwnageTool 2.0.1 changes:

• It auto-finds the bl39 and bl46 files better, if they’re on your computer
• It creates the ~/Library/iTunes/Device Support/ folder if not present, which should help with some 1600 errors people have been having.
• Many people have reported the PwnageTool not starting up at all (the icon never stops bouncing). This issue should be resolved now.
• The Sparkle AppCast URL is fixed in this version, so automatic updates should work for future releases.

Download: PwnageTool 2.0.1

- source: blog.iphone-dev.org

It didn’t take long for PwnageTool 2.0 to become YouTube’s star of the day with all kind of videos being released of people hacking their EDGE iPhone 2.0’s and iPhone 3G. Here is the most popular of the videos so far:

There have been many reports of errors abound for the iPhone Dev Team’s PwnageTool 2.0. Jailbreaking and Unlocking EDGE iPhones running 2.0 seems to be working quite well for most, but jailbreaking the iPhone 3G seems to be the largest cause of complaints.

Some report the application not even launching properly but most are having problems with either iTunes installing the new firmware or PwnageTool’s creation of the firmware file. The team has been making updates to their blog. We will make sure to keep you up to date with what is going on. Hopefully these problems will get sorted out quickly.

It’s been released early! The iPhone Dev Team’s PwnageTool 2.0 is out! We’ve got it in our iPhone Downloads section under iPhone Utilities or simply click here to download it.

We are testing it out on both the iPhone EDGE & iPhone 3G and will have a full review our Pwning fun soon.

Files you may need to go with PwnageTool 2.0:
iPhone Firmware 2.0 for EDGE
iPhone Firmware 2.0 for 3G
iPhone BootLoaders 3.9 & 4.6

Don’t have a Mac? If you are using an iPhone EDGE with Windows you can try using iTunes to install the PwnageTool 2.0 custom firmware I created.

From the team:

We’ll be releasing a more official announcement soon, but we wanted to get the tool out there. We sincerely hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it :)

Update: Just to clear up some confusion over what this actually does: yes, it jailbreaks and unlocks older iPhones, and jailbreaks iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touches. We only support the 2.0 firmwares.

Update: If you get Error 1600 from iTunes, try: mkdir “~/Library/iTunes/Device Support” ; if that directory already exists, remove any files in it. Then re-run PwnageTool.

Update: If DFU restores are giving you trouble, another route to pwned 2.0 for 1G owners is to use our first pwnage at 1.1.4. Once you are pwned there, you can do a normal recovery-mode restore to your custom 2.0 ipsw. BTW the iPhone does *not* need to be pre-pwned to be able to DFU-restore into a pwned ipsw — it needs to be pre-pwned only for normal recovery-mode restores of custom ipsw’s.

Update: Mail application not working at 2.0? Please restore to your custom ipsw (you don’t need to DFU restore if you are pwned, normal restore will work now too) but then select “Set up as a new iPhone” when iTunes asks. Your first sync will bring back all of your settings anyway.

Well the iPhone Dev Team has left another clue as to the release date of PwnageTool 2.0. This one is pretty easy to understand though:

We love Sundays. We think you will too.

Looks like we can expect to download PwnageTool 2.0 tomorrow Sunday July 20th.

This recent post was made on the iPhone Dev Team’s blog:

Boldog Születésnapot!

Boldog Születésnapot pytey! Most nem tudunk neked egy letölthető születésnapi ajandékot adni, de nagyon hamar az is megérkezik!

What language is that written in? What the hell does it mean? The language is Hungarian and some free online translation services will give you some pretty useless translations:

Happy birthday pytey! This time not tudunk for you one letölthető birthday ajandékot adni , but very soon the also fetch!

Someone posted in the comments on the blog that it translates as the the following:

Happy Birthday guys! Very Very soon we will have for you a downloadable birthday present for you, so hold on tight!

Luckily I happen to have a friend who knows some Hungarian and he confirmed the above translation with his own version:

Happy birthday right now i cant give you a download for your present, but it will get there soon

There we have it another wonderful coming soon message. Anymore coming soon messages and I think I’ll cry.