EasyTether / USB Tethering.

Hello! I am wondering how I can install and use EasyTether. It's seems rather difficult for me due to its immutable nature and I want to be able to play my legion go anywhere using my data (not hotspot data) from my android phone.

I've used EasyTether on Windows 11 and Arch Linux, both are easy but on bazzite it's so difficult so if someone can help me with this, greatly appreciated

wolfyreload•11/27/24, 3:42 AM

Two things for you to try

Spin up an Arch linux box in BoxBuddy and install and use it there like you normally would (it might work this way for you)
Alternatively, you might be able to download the rpm and run
```
rpm-ostree install /path/to/rpm-file
```
```
rpm-ostree install /path/to/rpm-file
```
to install the rpm file manually (you'll need to reboot for the install to complete)

Wwolfyreload Two things for you to try * Spin up an Arch linux box in BoxBuddy and install a...

BryanOP•11/27/24, 6:12 AM

thank you for the reply, doing boxbuddy and everything went well until i try to run it and i get

TUNSETIFF: Operation not permitted

i enabled everything on filesystem, allow, and device for boxbuddy on flatseal.

BryanOP•11/27/24, 6:12 AM

and Share=network

BBryan thank you for the reply, doing boxbuddy and everything went well until i try to ...

asen23•11/27/24, 6:19 AM

if the application need to configure host networking (e.g. vpn) then its usually easier to layer it

asen23•11/27/24, 6:19 AM

also if you want to change permission dont do it to boxbuddy, its just a frontend to distrobox

BryanOP•11/27/24, 6:20 AM

how can i do that? i never done layering

asen23•11/27/24, 6:20 AM

wolfy second suggestion

BryanOP•11/27/24, 7:04 AM

I think I give up. Unless there is a way to have easytether in bazzite, I might switch OS. I really like Bazzite its amazing, but I just cannot get something that I NEED when fully utilizing the PC Handheld.

I also want to have refind as I don't want to bootleg with grub and boot menu

@asen23 @wolfyreload thank you for your input and support, greatly appreciated!

BryanOP•11/27/24, 7:38 AM

I saw that the actual steamOS has an option to disable and re enable read only, if bazzite has that ability 100% would rock

BBryan I saw that the actual steamOS has an option to disable and re enable read only, ...

asen23•11/27/24, 7:42 AM

you can temporarily do that on bazzite but it will reset on boot, steamos will do that on update as well, you can create custom image if you want permanent solution

BBryan I think I give up. Unless there is a way to have easytether in bazzite, I might ...

HikariKnight•11/27/24, 11:53 AM

as wolfy said

Alternatively, you might be able to download the rpm and run rpm-ostree install /path/to/rpm-file to install the rpm file manually (you'll need to reboot for the install to complete)

that will layer the package IF it is an rpm file
if it is a fedora package you can

rpm-ostree install packagename

rpm-ostree install packagename

if there is a copr available for it then you can just add the copr using the

copr

copr

command instead of

dnf copr

dnf copr

like the copr tells you to. then it will become available as a normal fedora package once you have added it and can install it with

rpm-ostree

rpm-ostree

BBryan I think I give up. Unless there is a way to have easytether in bazzite, I might ...

wolfyreload•11/27/24, 4:28 PM

What is the website for the tool? Google search brings me to here http://www.mobile-stream.com/easytether/drivers.html which is very old software where it has installation instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 which hasn't been supported for years. So I suspect I'm looking at the wrong site.

Wwolfyreload What is the website for the tool? Google search brings me to here http://www.mob...

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:16 PM

That is the website. I've used it this year and works 100%

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:16 PM

Windows is so simple

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:16 PM

Arch Linux once you set it you can forget it

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:16 PM

I don't have to click or press I just plug in my phone

HikariKnight•11/27/24, 5:16 PM

big chance it will not work, that is ancient

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:16 PM

It asks for an older openssl

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:17 PM

When I tried to Install it

HikariKnight•11/27/24, 5:17 PM

yeah then no dice

HikariKnight•11/27/24, 5:17 PM

they have to update their old package

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:17 PM

What options are there for USB tethering?

HikariKnight•11/27/24, 5:18 PM

couldnt tell you, i dont usb tether and when i do i just plug my phone into my machine, tell it to tether and it works and i use that maybe 0.1% of the year

BryanOP•11/27/24, 5:18 PM

I like easytether as it just treats it as unlimited data and not use hotspot

BryanOP•11/27/24, 6:04 PM

Ima try changing the TTL on bazzite so I can use native USB tethering and bypassing hotspot usage since easytether is no good

wolfyreload•11/27/24, 6:12 PM

I had a look and didn't find any decent alternatives easytether on alternativeto.net . I don't think there is much demand as most people just use the native USB or bluetooth tethering that is built into most phones.

BryanOP•11/28/24, 5:01 PM

I've tried Ubuntu 20.04 on distrobox, it worked until it didn't

had to go to root on distrobox Ubuntu and it says its connected but not getting any connection

BryanOP•11/28/24, 5:02 PM

Worked until it didn't as in it says it's connected and everything, even on my phone but my legion go isn't getting any internet connection

BryanOP•11/30/24, 5:21 AM

Fellas I fucking did it excuse my language

BryanOP•11/30/24, 5:23 AM

Give me a moment I will upload instructions on how I did it, I'm installing discord rn

BryanOP•11/30/24, 5:47 AM

First Install Easytether on your android device, you may have to get the Pro that cost $10

on terminal or konsole type

distrobox create \
  --name bazzitearch \
  --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch \
  --init \
  --root

distrobox create \
  --name bazzitearch \
  --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch \
  --init \
  --root

distrobox enter --root bazzitearch

distrobox enter --root bazzitearch

then make your password

then download Easytether x86_64 .tar.xz file from mobile-stream.com and put it in your downloads file

on terminal type

cd ~/Downloads

cd ~/Downloads

sudo pacman -U easytether-0.8.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

sudo pacman -U easytether-0.8.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

then we install yay


sudo pacman -S git base-devel --needed


sudo pacman -S git base-devel --needed

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

yay -S openssl-1.1

yay -S openssl-1.1

once all that just plug in your phone to your device, make sure the easytether app is installed. DO NOT ENABLE USB Tethering, then run

sudo easytether-usb

sudo easytether-usb

you will get a prompt to allow authorization on your android device

you may need to reset and enable easytether by doing

sudo pkill easytether-usb

sudo pkill easytether-usb

you also may need to install NetworkManager on your distrobox

sudo pacman -S networkmanager

sudo pacman -S networkmanager

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

just in case pkill easytether-usb

sudo pkill easytether-usb

sudo pkill easytether-usb

then do


sudo easytether-usb


sudo easytether-usb

boom now you should be able to use your phone data as internet for your bazziteOS without having to use hotspot data.

Your network would probably show nothing or disconneted or not connected to any internet but it would work,

one notable thing is that you wont seamlessly switch back to wifi, I had trouble doing that but a simple reboot fixes it.
(IF STILL IN DISTROBOX)

exit

exit

reboot

reboot

systemctl reboot

systemctl reboot

commands to copy and paste once you need it again.

distrobox enter --root bazzitearch

distrobox enter --root bazzitearch

sudo easytether-usb

sudo easytether-usb

if not working correctly just do this.

sudo pkill easytether-usb

sudo pkill easytether-usb

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

sudo easytether-usb

sudo easytether-usb

BryanOP•11/30/24, 5:49 AM

Dont use native linux usb tethering, it uses hotspot data. Easytether bypasses hotspot data.

wolfyreload•11/30/24, 6:11 AM

Nice work

well done!

BryanOP•11/30/24, 6:19 AM

Idk if this changes anything but on flatseal I gave Box-Buddy a bunch of access including network

BryanOP•11/30/24, 6:19 AM

But box buddy is just a GUI thing and I never used Box buddy for this whole operation

wolfyreload•11/30/24, 6:21 AM

The BoxBuddy changes would be completely irrelevant here

BBryan First Install Easytether on your android device, you may have to get the Pro tha...

asen23•11/30/24, 7:24 AM

i would swap ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch to ghcr.io/ublue-os/arch-distrobox, it has paru already preinstalled so swap yay to paru also

Aasen23 i would swap ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch to ghcr.io/ublue-os/arch-distrobox, i...

BryanOP•11/30/24, 1:41 PM

Tried arch latest didn't work

BryanOP•11/30/24, 1:43 PM

I mean you can try other box images, I even tried Ubuntu 20.04, didn't work out for me. BazziteArch worked, if you have a different approach to achiving this then by all means.

BryanOP•11/30/24, 1:46 PM

Yay was only used to get openssl 1.1

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:11 PM

BBryan Tried arch latest didn't work

asen23•11/30/24, 2:15 PM

normal arch or ublue arch?

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:16 PM

ublue arch

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:16 PM

bazzite arch

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:17 PM

i used

asen23•11/30/24, 2:18 PM

thats weird, considering ublue arch are fork of bazzite arch, i mean if it works it works, but bazzite-arch arent meant for normal distrobox lol

Aasen23 thats weird, considering ublue arch are fork of bazzite arch, i mean if it works...

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:24 PM

ive tried arch latest and ubuntu 20.04 and i get this

TUNSETIFF: Operation not permitted

TUNSETIFF: Operation not permitted

maybe i could try again but ublue bazzite arch works for me

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:26 PM

ublue-os/bazzite-arch

BryanOP•11/30/24, 2:27 PM

sorry i dont want to create confusion, thats what i used

EasyTether / USB Tethering.

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