Native RNDIS USB tethering support for OSX

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

http://www.joshuawise.com/horndis

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.

horndis is a brilliant solution - just started using it yesterday and it's completely stable

I couldn't get my Andriod phone to work as a USB modem.

I compiled it from source for 10.6.8 then used packagemaker and the included packagemaker project file to create a package to install.

Only gotcha was using sudo su to change the ownership and permissions on the installed kext manually

sudo su
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/HoRNDIS.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/HoRNDIS.kext