[Solved] Tethering with Axon 7 Issues

[Lillysky]

Hey friends,
after 3 days I've finally got gentoo installed and running. I've been dealing with the usual wildness after an install, however currently I can't do much without a network connection. During the install I was able to tether my Axon 7 as easy as plugging it in and turning on tethering. This is not the case with the actual installation.

So I booted up the liveusb again, chrooted into the drive and installed DHCP, hoping I could use dhcpcd usbN as per the wiki article. To figure out what usb number my phone is I used dmesg. Its a whole lot of nonsense to a noob like me. I was able to find something mentioning a device number, which in my case was 7 (not in reference to the model number btw). This led me to believe it would be usb7 that I needed to use with dhcpcd, but it told me usb7 is invalid or nonexistent. I checked dmesg again to see if I picked the wrong one and noticed at the bottom it said "renaming from usb0". That threw me off. I tried usb0-usb7 and they all gave me the same error.

From here I'm not sure what to do. It "just werkd" on the liveusb yet in the environment I can't even figure out my device usb number, much less get dhcp working. Having to go into the liveusb and chroot just to install a few packages to go back and test more things is getting really tedious and stale so I'd like to establish a connection in the actual environment.

On the wiki it mentions with some phones you need rndis_host module, but I have absolutely no idea how a kernel module is added and, am in no way competent enough to just mess around until I figure it out. The wiki page has, at the top, a few blocks like this:

[Lillysky]

Excuse the double post, but I'm going through it all again but this time heres more detail.

First I started an xfce session as a local user, turned tethering on, opened up xterm and used dmesg. After looking through the output I found two lines of interest:

[charles17]