Personal Hotspot no longer recognised by Macbook Pro

I occasionally use Personal Hotspot to keep our Macbook Pro (minimally) up to date while travelling.
Personal Hotspot was a convenient, easy to use and inexpensve tool. But it no longer works.
Our service supplier suggested updating the iPhone to IOS 6.0.1 and pairing will work. Did that, no change!
Since I last used Personal Hotspot the Macbook pro software has been rebuilt following a disk crash (Mac OS X 10.6.8).
Personal Hotspot is enabled on the Iphone. The iphone is connected by a USB cable. The iphone is not appearing in the list of network services. In the past this was automatic.
Any suggestions out there?
Miller for Christine

Oh dear. No replies seems to imply this is a thing that can't be fixed at all.

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