USB Tethering

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I still have not been able to get my laptop online with USB tethering, even though the web surfing on the pine phone is working flawlessly now.  I was reminded of the time when I was trouble shooting the USB tethering  of Nokia N9 to the laptop.  After trying to create a wired  Mobile Broadband access point and failing.  I read on the Meego forum to enable developer mode, then with the three option that popped up, select "sync and connect", instead of SDK mode. I tried it. and it connected without any more prompting.  No pre-configuring of the Network connections were needed.  Might there be a similar way with the Pine phone that I'm not seeing?

Could this relate to the attempts to fix the battery draining by the anx7688 chip?

Apparently in the Braveheart the chip/usb c tethering seems reported to work no problem. However the chip 'hogged the battery' (according to the link below). And it would make sense to disable (I have noticed anx7688 errors in dmesg).

Could there a tradeoff to prevent battery drain from happening when phone is off? Just a theory.

If this were the case it would make sens for usb c tethering to work on Braveheart (with battery drain relation) and not to work to Community Edition UT.

https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/anx7688.html has some info on the hardware issue.