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[SOLVED] iPhone hotspot issues

I'm pretty new to linux, please forgive my ignorance.

In lieu of currently having no internet plan, I am attempting to use my linux machine on my iphone hotspot. Every time I connect to it, it drops immediately. I was told to use and attempted to install networkmanager from a tar file on USB and hit a brick wall at 'configure error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH'

Is there a way I can fix this issue with connman?

Thanks!

Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #1 –
just to add a tiny bit of colour to this if its the same person who posted on reddit - this is a bog standard artix xfce install, and the bit that's missing is any additional packages/config required to get an i phone hot spot working on it.  So, if anyone uses xfce and an i-phone for a hotspot, how'd you get it working basically!  Ta, G.

Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #2 –
Quote from: McVilllain – on
Is there a way I can fix this issue with connman?
Before blaming connman, can you try another ISO (say, Cinnamon) which uses NetworkManager and see if it's indeed a software issue and not your wifi card's quirk? You don't have to install it, just a live session would do. If NM works, we can guide you on which packages you need to download and install, no tars and configures.

Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #3 –
I connected to a hotspot on my windows desktop and installed the networkmanager package, tried to enable it, and it enabled but is inactive and I cannot activate networking using nmcli n on. I get this error:

failed to set networking: Method "Enable" with signature "b" on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" doesn't exist

I tried using nmtui and got this error:

Unable to add new connection: Method "AddConnection" with signature "a{sa{sv}}" on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings" doesn't exist   

When I try nmcli g, I get: WIFI-HW missing, WIFI disabled.

Is there any way to get it to recognize my wifi card or should I do a Cinnamon live session and see if it works there first?

Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #5 –
With connman, is connman-openrc installed and running?  I have used connman along with connman-gtk gui app and had no problems with connecting to my android phone hotspot.

I usually 1st check the SSID connection-

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ACER5:[dxrobertson]:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"HAL9000M"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 82:39:CF:A8:71:67   
          Bit Rate=58.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=48/70  Signal level=-62 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:181   Missed beacon:0


Then check to see if an IP was leased:

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ACER5:[dxrobertson]:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 08:97:98:db:a8:ef brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether d8:f3:bc:34:3d:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.43.179/24 brd 192.168.43.255 scope global wlan0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 2600:381:c594:dc53:daf3:bcff:fe34:3d47/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr 
       valid_lft 2834sec preferred_lft 2834sec
    inet6 fe80::daf3:bcff:fe34:3d47/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
ACER5:[dxrobertson]:~$

see  inet 192.168.43.179/24 brd 192.168.43.255   down under the wlan0 section.


Not to create even more confusion, but I recently installed the iwd wifi connection package (iwd, iwd-openrc, and iwgtk) and found it much cleaner and easy to use.  wpa-supplicant not needed, connection to WPA wifi is a 1 liner.



Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #6 –
Quote from: nous – on
Before blaming connman, can you try another ISO (say, Cinnamon) which uses NetworkManager and see if it's indeed a software issue and not your wifi card's quirk?
I just did a live session of Cinnamon, it connected to my iPhone hotspot with no issues. I have NetworkManager installed and running on xfce but my issue now is that it won't recognize my wireless device, so no connections can be made. Why would this be, is there an easy way to fix this? I like xfce because of how little resources it uses but cinnamon isn't so bad, so if it is a PITA then I'll just stick with Cinnamon.

Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #7 –
This is Linux, not windows. You can get XFCE too in your Cinnamon installation:
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sudo pacman -Sy xfce4 xfce4-goodies
Log out, select your new XFCE4 session, log in and profit. If you need the disk space, you can uninstall the cinnamon packages later.

Re: iPhone hotspot issues

Reply #8 –
Oh cool, okay I will do that. Thanks for the help!