Is USB Tethering a known source of wild goose chases with LineageOS? In which case I'd better save my energy for more import battles.You may need to enable USB_ETH_RNDIS as well See here this is slightly different from the options given in the note above. Also the WiFi connection is a little crappy and unnecessary.ĭo you smart people have any idea what dark forces could be at play here? Do you suspect the the issue relates to the phone or the laptop?

I've also tried manually configuring the IPV4 IP address, gateway and DNS on the Ubuntu system (192.168.42.xx + 192.168.42.129 ) but to no avail - network unreachable messages when trying to ping anything, including the gateway.Īt this point I thought: 'ah fuck it the WiFi hotspot works!' But I don't like things not working, and this is an interesting mystery. Therefore, USB Tethering on the Android is not completely broken The LineageOS 17.1 on the S9 is able to use USB Tethering to at least one consumer (Windows, in this case) Therefore, USB Tethering on the laptop is not completely broken The Ubuntu 20.10 laptop is able to use USB Tethering with at least one Android phone I decided to investigate it a little more myself and it turns out to be quite subtle (always good!):Ĭonnecting the same Android to a Windows laptop (and enabling tethering) results in success! So, Linux sucks huh? But.Ĭonnecting my old stock Sony XZ1 to the Ubuntu laptop (and enabling tethering) also results in success! It never succeeds, however, and remains in a loop of 'setting network address' (according to the network manager system tray app). If I connect the Android to the laptop by USB cable, enable USB tethering on the Android, then the laptop detects that the Android has been connected, and network manager begins to initialise the connection.

Next up: USB tethering, to avoid the Wi-Fi hotpot. Generic Intel laptop running Ubuntu 20.10 Ĭreating a Wi-Fi hotspot, and connecting from the laptop, works as expected: I can access the internet from the laptop. Samsung Galaxy S9 running Lineage OS 17.1 During a blackout of my wired internet connection, I noticed an interesting problem with using USB Tethering, when trying share my LineageOS phone's internet connection with my Ubuntu laptop.

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