GL-AR300M not seeing Moto G8 Power (Android 10)

Technical Support for Routers
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Hi,

I’ve been a happy owner of a GL-AR300M for a couple of years now. However, I’ve just bought a Moto G8 Power, running Android 10, and now, even though the phone is connected to the router’s USB port, the router is reporting “no tethering device found”. Boo.

Model = GL.iNet GL-AR300M
Architecture = Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533 ver 2 rev 0
Firmware Version = OpenWrt 18.06.1 r7258-5eb055306f / LuCI openwrt-18.06 branch (git-18.196.56128-9112198)
Kernel Version = 4.9.109

When attached directly to a laptop, the Moto tethers correctly.

Any ideas?

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Have you ssh’d in and checked dmesg yet? Have you allowed developer mode?

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Have you ssh’d in and checked dmesg yet?

Thanks - so that shows that the router is aware of my device after all, because after unplugging the Moto G8, then plugging it back in, I see this:

[  302.549979] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 5
[  320.672049] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-platform

Have you allowed developer mode?

Do you mean on the phone? If so, then yes…I used that to set USB Tethering as the default.

Any further help greatly appreciated…

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Huh. What does lsusb show? Does it recognize what the device is? (Afraid I’m not 100% familiar with the AR300 packages, I have a 300M, and a 300N-v2).

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Unfortunately, the AR300M doesn’t appear to have lsusb installed. I’d gladly run something like opkg update && opkg install usbutils (which, I gather, installs lsusb), but unless I can figure out how to divert traffic through my MAC, I’m going to struggle to get the router online. I didn’t consider that - sorry! This might have to wait until I can use my daughter’s Samsung J8 to tether since that works okay. Unfortunately, she’s not back until Monday week.

Meanwhile, opkg list-installed | grep usb shows this:

kmod-rt2800-usb - 4.9.109+2017-11-01-9
kmod-rt2x00-usb - 4.9.109+2017-11-01-9
kmod-usb-acm - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-core - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-ehci - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-cdc-ether - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-cdc-ncm - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-huawei-cdc-ncm - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-ipheth - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-qmi-wwan - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-rndis - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-net-sierrawireless - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-ohci - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-serial - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-serial-cp210x - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-serial-option - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-serial-sierrawireless - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-serial-wwan - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-storage - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-uhci - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb-wdm - 4.9.109-1
kmod-usb2 - 4.9.109-1
libusb-1.0 - 1.0.22-1
libusbmuxd - 1.1.0-2
rt2800-usb-firmware - 2017-09-06-a61ac5cf-1
usb-modeswitch - 2017-12-19-f40f84c2-1
usbmuxd - 1.1.1-4

Anything obvious missing?

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Weird. usbutils is a standard package. Try installing that.

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Try installing that.

I can’t very easily - see above.

Unless someone has some magic at hand that can get the Moto G8 working, I’ll report back on Monday week, when I can get the router online using a phone that works (after which I can install lsusb)

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You did a list-installed, not a list of all packages. Try opkg install usbutils unless you have less than 3MB of space, you should be fine.

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You did a list-installed

I know! I am trying to give anyone able to help as much information as possible.

Try opkg install usbutils

/sigh - I’ve said a number of times that I can’t do that quite yet. Thanks for suggesting again, though.

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opkg list-installed | grep usb got lsusb installed on my B1300. But it still won’t show a Samsung S8 connected to it as a tether.

I’m using the same USB cable that worked on a Slate.

And lsusb DOES show the S8:
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 04e8:6863 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

If I connect a Samsung S22 the B1300 does see it as a tether.