HoRNDIS (pronounce: "horrendous") is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get Internet access.

For more information, visit the home page for HoRNDIS.

Building the source

• git clone the repository
• Simply running xcodebuild in the checkout directory should be sufficient to build the kext. (see below for which project to use).

Please don't publish versions you built as if they were official!

For Mac OS X 10.6 or higher
If you wish to package it up, you can run make to assemble the package in the build/ directory.
For development use the HoRNDIS.xcodeproj on Xcode 4.0 or higher.

For Mac OS X 10.5 or lower
Don't use make if you want to build for 10.4 or 10.5.
Use the HoRNDIS_PPC.xcodeproj on Xcode 3.1.4 preferably.
To package your kext, use the PackageMaker files in the package/ directory according to what you want to include.

Installation

• Get the installation package (Download¹ or Build the installation package from source yourself)
• Run the installation package
• Assuming that the installation proceeds without errors, after it completes, connect your phone to your Mac by USB.
• Enter the settings menu on your phone.
• In the connections section, below Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, select “More...”. Select “Tethering & portable hotspot”.
• Check the “USB tethering” box. It should flash once, and then become solidly checked.

Uninstallation

• Delete the HoRNDIS.kext under /System/Library/Extensions and /Library/Extensions folder
• Restart your computer

Footnotes

1. To download the installation package, please visit.
   For binaries for Leopard and earlier, check the releases of this repo. ↩