I am trying to provide Internet to laptop, from any of two phones.I can do it only by wifi, but it drains battery quickly.When same laptop had Linux Mint 17.1-3 XFCE it worked without problem (on both smartphones).I am able to connect by bluetooth, and on phone popups message to authorize laptop to use Internet, which I accept, and phone says, that shares connection to 1 device (from this moment Linux Mint had Internet), however, laptop just loops between retrying connection and after each 10 seconds connection failed.I can send and receive files by bluetooth without problem.Connecting any phone with usb, and clicking tether as in Mint, makes laptop to recognize connection as ethernet (it's okay I guess), but also Internet cannot be accessed.I can access phone's files by usb without problem, and it gets recognized as right device.I was trying on both phones with both bluetooth and usb to ping 8.8.8.8 and it gives me Network unreachable.Tether by wifi works fine.How can I tether by usb and bluetooth?EDIT:I know, that 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google's DNS, and they will know, which hostnames I want to resolve, if I use their DNS.However, I have been trying to add 8.8.8.8 as name server in connection settings, and it didn't work - how is this file different?But yes - adding nameserver 8.8.8.8 and nameserver 8.8.4.4 to this file solved issue for bluetooth.I still cannot tether through usb - lapcop creates Wired connection 1 with type of Wired Ethernet, but it cannot really connect to it (last used: never).I am unable to force establishing this connection, in connection editor, option connect is disabled for this connection, and connection manager in tray doesn't even show it.I have been trying to remove it, and also add from two separate phones - without luck.It may be also worth a note, that before adding those nameservers to file, bluetooth couldn't even connect as Network Access Point, but now it works fine.Remaining questions:1. How to establish connection through usb?2. How is nameserver in file different from DNS in connection settings?
USB/bluetooth tether to Kubuntu 15.10
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I had the same problem. So try opening /etc/resolve.conf and where nameserver 127.*** change it to 8.8.8.8 then add nameserver 8.8.4.4 save it and reboot. Try your connection again. Hope it helps, it worked for me.