Not able to do USB Tethering on Ubuntu 16.04

I was trying to USB tether my Samsung Galaxy S7 to use home wifi on my desktop which has Ubuntu 16.04. When I turn 'USB tethering' on, I was not able to connect to any device.

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I found this post which was helpful

ifconfig -a

lists the network interfaces. Mine was listed as "enp0s20f0u2".

Then I did sudo apt-get install macchanger. There was a prompt for which I selected "No".

Then I ran sudo macchanger -b -a enp0s20f0u2. After this the output was:

 Ignoring --bia option that can only be used with --random Current MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (XEROX CORPORATION) Permanent MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (XEROX CORPORATION) New MAC: 00:11:a5:16:14:29 (Fortuna Electronic Corp.)

This seemed to solve the issue

Check for all available networks interfaces