Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 +0000
> magnus@autistici.org wrote:
>
> > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were
> > no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with
> > iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering USB does non work
> > anymore. We are both using the graphic interface
> > Xfce and the icon on the top right is showing a
> > successful Internet connection. But navigating in
> > Internet does not work.
>
> I don't know what you mean by that last sentence.
>
> > A ping does resolve the DNS
> > but there aren't any responses to the ICMP packets.
>
> That, as Tomas has already said, may be your friend's phone carrier
> dropping ICMP packets.
>
> You might consider using your friend's iPhone as a personal hotspot,
> and see if that makes a difference. I just used my Phone as a personal
> hotspot, and, on a brief test, ICMP, mail and HTTPS all worked just
> fine. Buster, iOS 14.2.
>
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Personal hotspot over wifi works for me on Debian 10.6 and iOS 14.2, however USB-tethering does not.
The issue is discussed here and a fix proposed, and according to which it is a Linux problem (or at least not affecting Windows 10)
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/1038
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