Jim Tibbets Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I need/want USB ethernet via OTG. I've wasted over 16 hours trying to get the g_ether module to work. A prominent poster told me that all recent Armbian images have this ability, just follow the directions... It's not. I'm using the stock Armbian image from this website, and I've updated it via "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade". Still no luck. The OTG connection currently shows up as a USB serial gadget, but I want a USB Ethernet gadget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zador.blood.stained Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 The OTG connection currently shows up as a USB serial gadget, but I want a USB Ethernet gadget. Then you need to start with disabling g_serial: Comment out g_serial in /etc/modules Disable ttyGS0 (sudo systemctl disable serial-getty@ttyGS0.service) Reboot and then follow the instructions to set up g_ether Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I've wasted over 16 hours trying to get the g_ether module to work. Better provide more details and ask more early when asking the next time. OPi Lite is the only H3 device where this does not work out of the box (any more... since OPi Lite has no Ethernet Zador configured the Lite in a way that you just connect the Micro USB port to your host to get a serial connection to do initial setup). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Tibbets Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Got more tweaking to do, but it's working so far... Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodolfo Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 OPi Lite is the only H3 device where this does not work out of the box (any more... since OPi Lite has no Ethernet Zador configured the Lite in a way that you just connect the Micro USB port to your host to get a serial connection to do initial setup). It would probably make more sense to configure the Lite with g_ether enabled and usb0 with static IP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 It would probably make more sense to configure the Lite with g_ether enabled and usb0 with static IP. Given that the majority of our users seem to use Windows that might not be a good idea if I understood Zador right since dealing with g_ether (RNDIS) from within Windows is PITA. IMO this is something for device specific documentation. We already started to move stuff from the download page into lib.docs repo and it would be great if we start to collect there for every device we support an individual knowledge base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zador.blood.stained Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 It would probably make more sense to configure the Lite with g_ether enabled and usb0 with static IP. Personally I find g_serial easier to configure than g_ether (on the other end). But I think we should add separate page to documentation for Orange Pi Lite, which would describe (briefly) how to use g_serial and how to disable it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Tibbets Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 I'm personally using both at the same time... Laptop is a Ubuntu bird and Tower is running Windows. If users are on Windows 10, then they might be able to install the Ubuntu for Windows Subsystem. That makes it possible to run BASH from CMD.exe, so no need for Putty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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