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What do you mean can't? I have one of those USB hub dongles for my MacBook and every Android phone I plugged it into can use the Ethernet port on it just fine.
by grishka 1y ago
What do you mean can't? I have one of those USB hub dongles for my MacBook and every Android phone I plugged it into can use the Ethernet port on it just fine. I also have a USB cellular modem that pretends to be an Ethernet device, and that works on Android too.
- gambiting 1y agoIt's been fixed since, the article is 2 years old.
- grishka 1y agoThe USB modem worked on a Nexus 5 in 2016.
- gambiting 1y agoIt probably identified itself as an Eth device then.
- goodburb 1y agoNon-generic adapters are fixed in custom ROMs/LOS, on stock Android 16 my ZTE modem is still reporting as usb0 due to MAC address local bit, while Huawei dongle works just fine. Android phone to android tablet USB tethering is also local MAC and non-functional.