{"id":30,"date":"2024-12-19T12:44:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:44:29","slug":"using-tethering-via-usb-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/using-tethering-via-usb-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Using tethering via USB port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a new system, and have installed OpenSUSE 15.5 on it.<br>So far so good, but later I noticed that using my mobile phone as network device was no longer working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this page <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.opensuse.org\/t\/tethering-via-usb-doesnt-works\/173596\">Tethering via USB doesn\u2019t works<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The solution proposed is working very well for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open a terminal session, and become root.<br>Launch the following command to enable it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>modprobe rndis_host<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then it starts to work fine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>7: usb0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000\nlink\/ether ca:21:72:bc:83:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff\naltname enp0s20f0u4\ninet 192.168.193.244\/24 brd 192.168.193.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute usb0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make it permanent, create a blacklist file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>vi \/etc\/modprobe.d\/50-blacklist-rndis.conf<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the following conent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>blacklist rndis_host<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bit later I found out that this change is done by purpose by SUSE. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suse.com\/support\/kb\/doc\/?id=000021587\">https:\/\/www.suse.com\/support\/kb\/doc\/?id=000021587<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, in fact you have to adapt the file <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\/lib\/modprobe.d\/50-blacklist-rndis.conf<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to avoid, to perform it as mentioned earlier.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a new system, and have installed OpenSUSE 15.5 on it.So far so good, but later I noticed that using my mobile phone as network device was no longer working. I found this page Tethering via USB doesn\u2019t works<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/using-tethering-via-usb-port\/\" class=\"awp-btn awp-btn-secondary awp-btn-bubble\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using tethering via USB port<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><span class=\"bubble_effect\"><span class=\"circle top-left\"><\/span><span class=\"circle top-left\"><\/span><span class=\"circle top-left\"><\/span>\t<span class=\"button effect-button\"><\/span><span class=\"circle bottom-right\"><\/span>\t<span class=\"circle bottom-right\"><\/span><span class=\"circle bottom-right\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-opensuse","tag-suse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paessens.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}