Upon upgrading from Fedora 41 to 42, I noticed that the USB tethering just doesn’t work

networkctl recognizes the device as “wwan” now, instead of “ether”. If I load up a previous kernel, USB tethering works normally.

This seems to be a change in the kernel, and probably won’t be reverted in the future. What do I do?

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You know what? Fuck this. I just backed my shit up and installed Debian. Still, please try to look into this, this could be a problem for many others

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 days ago

    So its treating your phone like a WWAN device like if you had mobile broadband built into the computer instead of treating it like a ethernet over usb connection. If there is a network connection showing up for it try to go in and force it to allow the phone to handle DHCP. Tethered phones act as the DHCP server in most cases, but if it thinks its an internet WWAN device the computer might be trying to be the DHCP server causing a conflict. Or force it to somehow recognize it as an ethernet connection.