I will check it out on Windows. It is usable on Windows, and it tethers automatically via USB as an ethernet device. Can you offer any guidance as to what this "sniff" should entail, or perhaps point to a resource? I'm a linux user day-to-day, and what Windows experience I have is more and...

I've just had a chance to try it with a Debian Stretch machine. It seems to be disconnecting as well! Perhaps my recollections were wrong, or perhaps something's different this time. I do clearly recall an unfamiliar networking icon. Anyway, it disconnects so lsusb doesn't show anything. dmesg shows...

Thank you very much for the tip Josh; a few pieces of data: It tethers fine, and automatically, to a computer running Windows It doesn't tether automatically to a computer running Ubuntu (or to one running Debian Stretch)--I haven't had time to get to the root of the problem here yet. The computer d...

I would also very much appreciate a hand getting this device to tether in a *nix environment. The following is from a LEDE install: logread gives me: Tue Oct 10 20:59:08 2017 kern.info kernel: [ 1524.380590] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using orion-ehci Tue Oct 10 20:59:08 2017 kern.i...