(07-02-2021, 08:13 AM)guenther Wrote: You could try to upgrade everything and then switch to the previous kernel 5.9. This is what I did on my PineTab because a "kworker" process eating up 100% cpu in kernel 5.10. I don't know how this affect usb tethering in any way but I guess it should work again...
Guenther, I was hoping there was a way as you described. could you point me to how you did it? I would not need to go back to 5.9, just the Jan version of 5.10. Just now, I did another dist-upgrade, after seeing that 15 packages were being held back if i only did the plain upgrade. (I'm a glutton for punishment). I still wanted to know if it was the May 31 kernel that was the real culprit or if it was something else since I thought I saw something along the line of "encryption" the last time I updated but not this time. I will find out when I get home and try to get my laptop online via USB tethering tonight.
(07-02-2021, 01:48 AM)biketool Wrote: USB and Bluetooth networking is important and for personal users of higher priority than WiFi which is in many cases more for sharing your Internet connection with friends. The downside to using WiFi over USB or Bluetooth is WiFi wastes far more amp/hours per Mb of data transferred. Since we are mobile and using a battery it is a really big deal to save those battery watt/hours.
PAN bluetooth network is reasonably easy to set up http://wiki.maemo.org/Bluetooth_PAN though many people want a GUI the N900 example is still be limited to paired computers as far as access control as it is a Personal Area Network(PAN).
Every interface should easily be configured to be the host, there are situations where a user might even insert a USB Ethernet dongle and run a whole network off of a pinephone.
Biketool, it's nice to see the maemo site again, as I have only skirted the forum when i had the nokia n9. (still have, just can't keep up with the new cell frequencies). I know I could use wifi or bluetooth to get my laptop online, but would really prefer the USB tethering where I would be charging my pinephone at the same time, instead of using up its battery....