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What do you mean can't? I have one of those USB hub dongles for my MacBook and every Android phone I plugged it into can use the Ethernet port on it just fine. I also have a USB cellular modem that pretends to be an Ethernet device, and that works on Android too.

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It's been fixed since, the article is 2 years old.

Non-generic adapters are fixed in custom ROMs/LOS, on stock Android 16 my ZTE modem is still reporting as usb0 due to MAC address local bit, while Huawei dongle works just fine.

Android phone to android tablet USB tethering is also local MAC and non-functional.

The USB modem worked on a Nexus 5 in 2016.

It probably identified itself as an Eth device then.

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