Hi, I’ve completed a fresh install of 15.4 on what will be a headless server, so with no gui package, cli only. I’m trying to use my phone for internet connectivity in the short term until it ends up in it’s final location.
The phone is an android Samsung S10, when I plug it into a usb port and enable USB tethering I get a network interface named usb0 listed under ip addr but it is in a down state. I try and bring it up with ip link set usb0 up and then when I repeat ip addr the state shows as up and it has been given an inet6 address but no ipv4 address and next to no activity. Just a handful of packets show with ip -s and no internet connectivity whatsoever.
On my regular gui-fied desktop (but running 15.3) the same phone immediately gets an ipv4 address and internet connectivity without any fuss. So, I have a suspicion that choosing the non-gui server package selection during install might have left me without the package(s) I need for this to work but have no idea what they might be, and would have thought usb0 wouldn’t show up at all if that was the case. Maybe there are some commands I need to bring it to life? Any and all ideas welcome.
Cheers, will have a read. Just checked in with Yast, Wicked Service is selected as the network manager in global options but usb0 is not listed as a device under Overview, even though it is listed with ip addr, so doesn’t look like I can set it that way.
Hope a photo’s ok for now, getting a text grab is a bit tricky cos it’s offline. At the top is the output of ip addr, then hwinfo, then lsusb. lsusb shows the phone on line 8 and seems to be recognising tether mode.
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Have you tried adding usb0 and configuring manually?
Network Settings > Overview tab > Add > Device type ‘Ethernet’ > Dynamic Address > General tab > add ‘usb0’ for ‘Configuration Name’, and 'OK when done. The Overview tab should show ‘usb0 DHCP usb0’. Does that work?