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nolbap26

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[SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

I'm trying to connect my computer to internet via USB tethering with my Android phone but I couldn't make it to work. I already tried following the instructions on the Android tethering arch wiki page but it didn't work. When I try to connect to the device it shows up on nmtui when I enable tethering on my phone it says this:

Could not activate connection: Connection 'Conexión cableada 2' is not available on device enp9s0f3u1 because device is not available

The logs for dmesg and journalctl -b are these:
'dmesg' output
'journalctl -b' output

Thanks beforehand!

Last edited by nolbap26 (2022-05-21 02:36:27)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

With the phone connected, and in USB tethering mode, please post the output of ip addr

Edit:  Oh, and welcome to the forums

Last edited by ewaller (2022-05-20 23:37:23)

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nolbap26

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

output of ip addr

$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 18:c0:4d:85:79:c7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp4s0
3: wlp5s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether f6:e4:fc:47:58:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 98:8d:46:94:e3:50
4: enp9s0f3u1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Edit:  Oh, and welcome to the forums

Thanks

Last edited by nolbap26 (2022-05-20 23:59:31)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

Okay, so the device shows up as a NIC,
What happens if you run sudo dhcpcd and run ip addr again.  Does that result in an IP address being assigned to enp9s0f3u1?

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nolbap26

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

$ sudo dhcpcd
sending commands to dhcpcd process
$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::59b3:b85c:984f:ba19/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 18:c0:4d:85:79:c7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp4s0
3: wlp5s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 76:07:a6:6f:1d:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 98:8d:46:94:e3:50
4: enp9s0f3u1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

Okay, let us try sudo ip link set enp9s0f3u1 up

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nolbap26

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

 $sudo ip link set enp9s0f3u1 up
RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address 

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

Rats.  Quickly running out of ideas.

Oh.  Look at the MAC address.  00:00:00:00:00:00
Maybe this is relevant: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275481

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nolbap26

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet via USB tethering

Okay so I set up the .rules file and It didn't do anything, and I noticed that had a command in it that assigned the MAC address, so I tried running it in the terminal to see if it had any output and this was it:

$ sudo /sbin/ip link set enp9s0f3u1 address 53:8B:Cf:3E:2C:E4
RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address

Edit: So just after writing that message I tried to set the same MAC address it assigns to the wireless connection and it worked haha! Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it

Last edited by nolbap26 (2022-05-21 02:34:12)