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AquelarreRules

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Registered: 2015-04-15

Posts: 3

USB tethering

Hello all,
I have an android phone and Archlinux with Gnome. When I attempt to do tethering between the phone and the laptop, I activate the required options in the cell, link it with the usb cable and turn off wifi in network manager. Automatically NM detects the wired conection and say "connected". But... nothing happens. I've no internet. Without errors.
I attempted to do it with dhcpcd. Same result: the dhcp daemon say "all is ok. The net is up", but it doesn't works.
I hope some of you can give me any clue.
Thank you.

PD- by the way. I had an iphone months ago and tethering goes ok. It is the same installation of arch.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: USB tethering

When you tether the phone, do you get a new interface in Arch ( ip link ) ?
Do you get an address on that link( ip addr ) ?
Can you ping that address?
Can you ping 66.211.214.131 ? (an Arch Linux server)
Can you browse to that address?

Does your carrier allow tethering?  Is it possible they don't enable NAT by default?
What is the output of ip route  ?

Edit:  BTW, welcome to Arch

Last edited by ewaller (2015-04-15 23:29:32)

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AquelarreRules

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Registered: 2015-04-15

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Re: USB tethering

Thank you for the welcome. I believe I will stay in the arch world for a long. Maybe a change in the future to Gentoo hehehe.
I've solved the issue with the info in this web: https://forums.motorola.com/posts/de557bb8c5
I don't know why it works, but works.
Thank you for the quick reply.
kind regards

ewaller

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Re: USB tethering

Had it really been set to DUN ?    [Dial Up Networking]

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AquelarreRules

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Registered: 2015-04-15

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Re: USB tethering

No, it was in "default"