lost ability to tether using android phone
Donatas G.
dgvirtual at akl.lt
Mon Dec 21 19:57:11 UTC 2015
Thanks but I think I did not quite get the message accross. The problem is
not my phone as a storage device. The storage I can access. The problem is
that it no longer functions as a working network device. And it appears to
be working - the computer does get an ip address from the phone - but i can
not get any data accross the link.
for now I am just using the phone as a wifi hotspot to solve the problem.
Which is ok if I have connection to the charger, and not ok if I have to
work on battery power.
Donatas G.
2015-12-18 10:36 GMT+02:00 Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>:
>
>
> I hate it word wrap when it does this. See corrected script
> below.
>
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Bill Vance wrote:
>
> The command, "lsusb", _may_ give some useful initial info.
>>
>> It's something that happens on all of them, including my 12.04
>> rig. During bootup, various links are made, (in the /media dir),
>> to the various USB connections. If you have a movie in your DVD
>> drive, you'll _usually_ get the name of the movie as one of the
>> links. If it's a device of some sort, you _might_ get the make/
>> model/manufactures info, or a really odd looking, randomly
>> generated alphanumeric, such as the one you report below.
>>
>> Further, if your device is a USB harddrive, Which received a
>> name like, "/Alternate", during OS install, or from a formatting
>> util like fdisk, then when typing, "ls /media", you might get,
>> "/Alternate", "USB(N)", or, "enx86fe93fa90d8".
>>
>> As it kept changing for every bootup, the script I made to
>> find/change it for my USB hardrive, may be useful to you,
>> (with appropriate mods).
>>
>> 1st, make a simple empty text file on your dev, and give it
>> a handy name like, "devcheck", or you can make do with an
>> allready existing file, as long as it's unique between devices.
>>
>> Next, you want to make a bash script that runs automatically,
>> with each bootup, and put in it, something like the following:
>>
>>
>> ls -1 /media >/tmp/dirlist # makes a one column dir
>> # list
>>
>> while read ADir # reads one dir name from
>> # list
>> do if [ -e /media/$ADir/devcheck ]; # see if, "devcheck", exists
>>
>> then echo "$ADir" >/tmp/Alt ; break # if it does, store it
>> # and exit loop
>> fi
>> Alternate=$(cat /tmp/Alt) ; export Alternate # make sure future
>> # shells get the
>> # msg
>>
>> done </tmp/dirlist
>>
>> # You may need to add:
>>
>> 'Alternative=$(cat /tmp/Alt) ; export Alternative'
>>
>> to your .bash_aliases file. Now your device can be accessed via,
>> "/$Alternate", as in:
>>
>> ls /media/$Alternate/path/name
>>
>> It's from a long time ago, and a little convoluted, and could
>> probably use a bit of cleaning up, bit it does work.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Donatas G. wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> perhaps after the latest upgrade to 15.10 my computer can no
>>> longer connect to internet via android mobile phone connected
>>> via usb cable. It used to work, and I can still do that with a
>>> windows computer, so the android phone is not to blame.
>>>
>>> I recall that previously ifconfig would show that I am
>>> connecting through a usb0 device. Now it has a strange name
>>> "enx86fe93fa90d8"... The computer does get an IP address from
>>> the phone, but I can neither ping the phone itself (the
>>> "gateway") nor ping any website or IP address on the net. All
>>> the other parameters do not say a lot to me, but I am including
>>> those as output here below.
>>>
>>> Anyone has encountered this problem? Any idea why it fails to
>>> work? Would be grateful for ideas what to do next.
>>>
>>> Below are some outputs of the relevant commands.
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>>
>>> Donatas Glodenis
>>>
>>> me at pc:~$ ifconfig
>>> enx86fe93fa90d8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 86:fe:93:fa:90:d8
>>> inet addr:192.168.1.77 Bcast:192.168.1.255
>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>> inet6 addr: fe80::84fe:93ff:fefa:90d8/64 Scope:Link
>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>> TX packets:0 errors:58 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>>>
>>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f0:de:f1:e5:cb:71
>>> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>>> Interrupt:20 Memory:f2500000-f2520000
>>>
>>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
>>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>>> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
>>> RX packets:4378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>> TX packets:4378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>> RX bytes:379363 (379.3 KB) TX bytes:379363 (379.3 KB)
>>>
>>> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8c:70:5a:24:1a:24
>>> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>>> RX packets:1884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>> TX packets:1522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>> RX bytes:1766439 (1.7 MB) TX bytes:296839 (296.8 KB)
>>>
>>> me at pc:~$ ping -c 3 delfi.lt
>>> ping: unknown host delfi.lt
>>> me at pc:~$ ping -c 3 91.234.200.113 ## this is an ip of delfi.lt
>>> PING 91.234.200.113 (91.234.200.113) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>> From 192.168.1.77 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 192.168.1.77 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 192.168.1.77 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>
>>> --- 91.234.200.113 ping statistics ---
>>> 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss,
>>> time 2014ms
>>> pipe 3
>>>
>>> me at pc:~$ netstat -nr
>>> Kernel IP routing table
>>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS
>>> Window irtt Iface
>>> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0
>>> 0 0 enx86fe93fa90d8
>>> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0
>>> 0 0 enx86fe93fa90d8
>>> me at pc:~$ ping -c 3 192.168.1.2
>>> PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>> From 192.168.1.77 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 192.168.1.77 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 192.168.1.77 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>>>
>>> --- 192.168.1.2 ping statistics ---
>>> 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss,
>>> time 2014ms
>>> pipe 3
>>>
>>> me at pc:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
>>> # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
>>> auto lo
>>> iface lo inet loopback
>>>
>>> me at pc:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
>>> # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by
>>> resolvconf(8)
>>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE
>>> OVERWRITTEN
>>> nameserver 127.0.1.1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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