I can’t figure out how to tether a Tumbleweed-powered laptop to my Android smartphone’s internet connection, as I regularly did with Windows 7 and Linux Mint versions 17.* and 18.*.
If I turn on USB tethering in Android, the Tumbleweed laptop’s Network Manager icon changes to indicate a successful connection, and I’ll see a “You are now connected to Wired Connection (Number)” notification.
Unfortunately, this notification is misleading: pings and traceroutes get “Name or service not known” errors. I can’t go online.
Symptoms are the same when I instead try to connect by enabling “Wi-Fi hotspot” in Android. The laptop prompts me to enter the Wi-fi hotspot password, reports “Connection established,” shows the wi-fi signal icon … and gives the same “Name or service not known errors” on ping attempts. No internet.
Enabling USB debugging in Android (Lineage OS, successor to CyanogenMod) didn’t help. I experimented with a second Tumbleweed-powered laptop, with identical results.
I searched opensuse.org for related threads, and thought I saw a light at the end of the tunnel while reading Deano Ferrari’s tips in:
I edited /etc/resolv.conf to point to openDNS nameservers. This time, after a ten second pause, ping delivered a different message:
“Temporary failure in name resolution.”
… but nothing else, and the system still wouldn’t go online.
I also tried following the steps at:
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using
to change to Google’s DNS, without success.
FWIW, I can easily transfer files to and from the smartphone, simply by changing USB options from ‘charging’ to ‘file transfer.’
If I remember correctly, USB tethering in Linux Mint was pretty much ‘plug and play’ for both these laptops.
Troubleshooting tips will be appreciated!