Orange Pi Zero Plus as an ethernet gadget

[mondalex]

How to use an Orange Pi Zero Plus as an ethernet gadget over usb otg using g_ether?

[Igor]

Armbian uses g_serial by default with a modern kernel. With old, I lost track. I assume you only need to exchange it with g_ether? /etc/modules 

[mondalex]

6 hours ago, Igor said:

Armbian uses g_serial by default with a modern kernel. With old, I lost track. I assume you only need to exchange it with g_ether? /etc/modules 

I'm actually very new to all these so can you please point out how I can exchange g_serial with g_ether?

[Igor]

20 minutes ago, mondalex said:

how I can exchange g_serial with g_ether?

I actually wrote the exact procedure  Edit /etc/modules. Remove g_serial and add g_ether instead .... save and reboot.

 

But remember, it's still only a theory. I haven't tested this.

[mondalex]

11 minutes ago, Igor said:

I actually wrote the exact procedure  Edit /etc/modules. Remove g_serial and add g_ether instead .... save and reboot.

 

But remember, it's still only a theory. I haven't tested this.

Thanks 

[mondalex]

I changed g_serial to g_ether and my board is being detected as USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget on my pc but there is no connection. How do I ssh to the device? I tried with hostname.local but couldn't connect.

[MitchD]

change your /etc/network/interfaces file to look like:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.100.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0

 

and type

sudo ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

 

With that you should be able to ssh into the device using ssh USER@192.168.100.1

[mondalex]

I changed /etc/network/interfaces to this

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static 
address 192.168.100.1 
netmask 255.255.255.0

and ran 

sudo ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

but still there is no connection.

[guidol]

10 hours ago, MitchD said:

change your /etc/network/interfaces file to look like:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.100.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0

 

and type

sudo ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

 

With that you should be able to ssh into the device using ssh USER@192.168.100.1

I think - you have to replace here eth0 with usb0
The following page is for the Raspberry, but could also help your OPi with the /etc/network/interfaces or the configuration within windows:
https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-into-a-usb-gadget/ethernet-gadget

[tkaiser]

7 minutes ago, guidol said:

The following page is for the Raspberry,

 

BTW: this forum is searchable. It's pretty easy to search for g_ether and then end up here for example: 

 

[mondalex]

1 hour ago, guidol said:

I think - you have to replace here eth0 with usb0
The following page is for the Raspberry, but could also help your OPi with the /etc/network/interfaces or the configuration within windows:
https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-into-a-usb-gadget/ethernet-gadget

Thanks  it worked!