Tether not active

terry2016 · 2017-05-16T03:33:01.000Z

I have a brand new GL-MT300N and have upgraded to the 2.25 firmware. I purchased this so I could use the USB Tether feature of my cell phone to create a wifi network (the reasons why I don’t just use wifi hotspot on the cell phone are as valid as they are boring. Please just take it on faith that I need this.)

I have tested this cable with this TMOB Samsung S7 and usb tethering to a PC works fine.

This seems like a very simple use case. It also simply doesn’t work. With a PC plugged into the LAN port and my cell phone set to Tether the USB port Tethering Interface does not come up.

The System log actually looks like it works. But it is never assigned an IP address.

------ System Log -------



Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 kern.info kernel: [66351.440000] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 10

Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 kern.info kernel: [66351.800000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-platform

Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 kern.debug kernel: [66351.950000] usb 1-1: no of_node; not parsing pinctrl DT

Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 kern.debug kernel: [66351.960000] rndis_host 1-1:1.0: no of_node; not parsing pinctrl DT

Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 kern.info kernel: [66351.970000] rndis_host 1-1:1.0 eth1: register 'rndis_host' at usb-101c0000.ehci-1, RNDIS device, 00:00:00:00:00:00

Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'tethering' is enabled

Mon May 15 05:44:04 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is enabled

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00

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)

I also tried the instructions at OpenWRT wiki USB Tethering to an OpenWrt router [Old OpenWrt Wiki]

They don’t really offer anything new and didn’t make anything any different:

root@GL-MT300N:~# uci del network.wan

root@GL-MT300N:~# uci set network.wan=interface

root@GL-MT300N:~# uci set network.wan.ifname=eth1

root@GL-MT300N:~# uci set network.wan.proto=dhcp

root@GL-MT300N:~# uci commit network

root@GL-MT300N:~# ifconfig $(uci get network.wan.ifname)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00

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)

It feels like I’m missing something simple. But I am at a loss for what it might be. Any help appreciated.

alzhao · 2017-05-16T10:46:01.000Z

Does Samsung S7 need to use easytether?

terry2016 · 2017-05-16T20:43:45.000Z

No. Tethering works fine and I get 8GB a month for free. I’ve never come anywhere close to that.