GeekManLinux

Wow now I feel like an idiot lol. Apparently just rebooting enough times with the phone connected caused the modules to load. It now shows up as usb0 in ifconfig. So now I just need to implement the bridge and ttl mod and i should be good to go. Sorry for wasting your time.

I am trying to set up a Orange Pi Zero to use as a small NAT/ Bridge Device. I want to use an Android phone in USB tether mode to give its 4g connection to an interface on the opi zero then use a network bridge to join the 4g connection to the lan port, also the opi zero is gonna run a small section of code on the USB interface that changes the TTL of all packets through the interface. On my linux mint box the script looks like pkexec sysctl net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=65 && echo 65 | pkexec tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl but i am running into issues with the very first part, that is getting my phone native USB tether to be recognized as an interface in the kernel. I understand that a kernel module, I believe g_ether, needs to be installed to get this functionality. All the posts I have seen use this module to make the opi run as the HOST and not the client. Also i am new to modifying the kernel in this way so if someone knows how to do it on this distro it would be greatly appreciated. System info: ARMBIAN 5.65 stable Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.14.84-sunxi Output of lsusb of the phone when in tether mode Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0e8d:2004 MediaTek Inc. Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 224 Wireless bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0e8d MediaTek Inc. idProduct 0x2004 bcdDevice ff.ff iManufacturer 2 iProduct 3 iSerial 4 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 75 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xc0 Self Powered MaxPower 500mA Interface Association: bLength 8 bDescriptorType 11 bFirstInterface 0 bInterfaceCount 2 bFunctionClass 224 Wireless bFunctionSubClass 1 Radio Frequency bFunctionProtocol 3 RNDIS iFunction 19 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 224 Wireless bInterfaceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency bInterfaceProtocol 3 RNDIS iInterface 17 ** UNRECOGNIZED: 05 24 00 10 01 ** UNRECOGNIZED: 05 24 01 00 01 ** UNRECOGNIZED: 04 24 02 00 ** UNRECOGNIZED: 05 24 06 00 01 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 9 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 10 CDC Data bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 18 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0