Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 20:41 Post subject: LG K92 5G Unable to USB Tether - Linksys EA6900
Good Afternoon!
First, I want to state that if I am posting this in the wrong section, please feel free to move this to where it needs to go.
I am attempting to set up an LG K92 5G phone as a USB Tethering modem for my router. It will register on the phone that it is plugged into the router USB port.
The phone offers the ability to enable "USB Tethering" in the settings. Once I enable it, I follow the instructions on using the USB Modem as WAN Connection page. At step 8-5, I get an error:
Code:
root@DD-WRT:/lib/modules/4.4.262# ifconfig usb0 up
ifconfig: ioctl 0x8913 failed: No such device
I did follow another thread and upgraded to the latest beta build, performing a complete reset and everything. The same issue continues to occur.
In the same thread I followed the link to update drivers using OpenWRT. The person in that thread apparently gave up with their device, however, I think its genuinely a missing driver as the phone is relatively new(released: September 29, 2020)
The list on the Mobile Broadband page does not have the phone listed, so I was hoping someone could look to see if it could be processed accordingly. On that same page, it gave a list of criteria that needed to be met in order to implement these drivers.
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7822 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:02 Post subject:
phones need special drivers or are using some sort of usbnet drivers. i dont know how to get your phone to work since i have no instructions for i nor to i have such a phone. so find instructions how to use it on linux, then i may be able to help _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
I have a Linux Mint Machine and all I have to do is plug it in and select "USB Tethering" in the settings on the phone and it allows USB Tethering in Linux Mint, as well as rasbian. As far as I can tell, no other drivers were required, unless it auto-magically installed them.
