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Android phones can be USB tethered via RNDIS protocol on Windows and Linux. As far as I understood Apple does not provide RNDIS driver for OSX.

Are there RNDIS drivers for OSX by third party (Android vendor) or community?

I don't want to use any any app for tethering, I want the real thing, as other operating systems can do it, so please no suggestions for alternative methods.

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Since then, this driver has come out. It's FOSS too.

http://www.joshuawise.com/horndis

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RNDIS is a Microsoft-proprietary protocol and it's highly unlikely that Apple is going to support it just for the sake of Android tethering.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNDIS

Your best chance is for a 3rd party to write a Mac OS X driver for RNDIS. Don't expect this to be free (as in beer) though.

However you should be able to use the Android phone as a USB dial-up modem, which was the standard way for tethering before the iPhone came about and still a supported method in OS X and others.

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Thanks! That what I was slowly realized. Nowadays using wifi tethering. – Mikko Ohtamaa Jun 8 '12 at 20:56

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