Upon upgrading from Fedora 41 to 42, I noticed that the USB tethering just doesn’t work
networkctl recognizes the device as “wwan” now, instead of “ether”. If I load up a previous kernel, USB tethering works normally.
This seems to be a change in the kernel, and probably won’t be reverted in the future. What do I do?
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You know what? Fuck this. I just backed my shit up and installed Debian. Still, please try to look into this, this could be a problem for many others
You’re not alone in this:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/usb-tethering-stopped-working-after-f42-update/148809
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-42-tethering-from-my-phone-stopped-working-after-upgrade-device-recognized-as-wwan/148927
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220002
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
When Debian upgrades to this kernel version you might run into the issue again. Unless there is a fix deployed before then.
By that time, I don’t think I’ll have to rely on USB tethering anymore. Plus the problem might reach the right ears and get fixed by then, as you said.