<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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. </div>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. </div>Donatas G.<div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2015-12-18 10:36 GMT+02:00 Bill Vance <<a href="mailto:kbun@xpresso.seaslug.org" target="_blank">kbun@xpresso.seaslug.org</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I hate it word wrap when it does this. See corrected script below. On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Bill Vance wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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=$(cat /tmp/Alt) ; export Alternate # make sure future # shells get the # msg<div><div class="h5"> done </tmp/dirlist # You may need to add: 'Alternative=$(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: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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@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@pc:~$ ping -c 3 <a href="http://delfi.lt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">delfi.lt</a> ping: unknown host <a href="http://delfi.lt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">delfi.lt</a> me@pc:~$ ping -c 3 91.234.200.113 ## this is an ip of <a href="http://delfi.lt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">delfi.lt</a> 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@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@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@pc:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback me@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 </blockquote> </div></div></blockquote> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div>