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dors

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Registered: 2020-04-08

Posts: 21

[SOLVED]After a recent update I cannot do usb tethering with my phone

Hello, so until yesterday, I was able to plug my phone in  with tethering enabled and find with ip link/dhcpcd my phone network, and connect to it. Today it seems gone. I cannot seem to find the connection anymore.

ip link show

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 94:e6:f7:c8:78:a5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

However, my lsusb still recognises my phone:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:565a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Integrated_Webcam_HD
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 27c6:538d Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. FingerPrint
Bus 001 Device 019: ID 04e8:6863 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy series, misc. (tethering mode)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 056a:037a Wacom Co., Ltd CTL-472 [One by Wacom (S)]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I am not sure why it stopped working. I have found  arch linux guide relative to this, but I am not sure how to proceed.

EDIT: I realized I forgot to reboot after a kernel update, so by rebooting the issue seemed solved. Sorry

Last edited by dors (2020-04-27 13:50:13)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,381

Re: [SOLVED]After a recent update I cannot do usb tethering with my phone

Check/post dmesg. Are your kernel versions/images properly in sync? do

pacman -Q linux
uname -a

match in versions?

dors

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Registered: 2020-04-08

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED]After a recent update I cannot do usb tethering with my phone

hey thanks, I just realised that my system did a kernel update, and so I rebooted and now it works flawlessy... my bad