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android usb tether driver for Windows XP Posted: 26 May 2011 11:10 PM PDT Having recently gotten an Android mobile phone (and since I have a mobile phone plan with 1Gb of downloads), I decided that I might need to occasionally use the phone as a broadband modem (although a wifi “wireless” tether is nice, its also nice to charge my battery-hungry Desire while surfing the net via my laptop). The laptop is XP, so I thought it should be easy to setup… but XP just didn’t seem to recognise the phone. I could connect it to my linux-based (easy peasy) laptop, with no issues. Even Windows 7 worked nicely. So whats the problem with XP? It turns out XP dousn’t know how to handle the “USB” internet without proper drivers (which microsoft seem to be refusing to make available via its update system… how childish). So I eventually found the solution in an android forum: First, download the driver file: android tether xp Save someplace like your desktop plug in your android phone to the PC via a USB cable when the phone prompts you for the connection type (or by flicking down from the top bar of the phone), select: usb tethering XP will then say “i don’t have a driver for this”… just say you will select the driver maually, and then point it at the “tetherxp.inf” file that you downloaded. After that, you will have a tethered android internet connection (just remember that it can sometimes take up to 1 minute before XP realises that the phone has changed USB connection type.   Related posts: stop wm6 from always using internet sharing intel 82801db driver reinstall fast fw54u (rt2571 chipset) RT73 wireless driver

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