Pi Zero Ethernet Gadget doesn't show up on Macbook Pro?

[ulfmagnetics]

Hi all, I've followed Adafruit's Ethernet Gadget Tutorial for my new Pi Zero and I have a statically-assigned IP address on the zero (see ipconfig output below.) When I plug the device into my Macbook Pro, however, I don't see a RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget appear in Network Preferences. I've tried all kinds of things, including removing the Android File Transfer agent, installing the HoRNDIS kernel extension, and manually loading the AppleUSBCDCEEM kext, but nothing will get the device to appear.

I've verified with IORegistryExplorer that the device is getting recognized by the USB hub:

IORegistryExplorer showing the Pi Zero gadget in the device tree

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but for some reason the networking code just won't expose it as a network connection. Does anybody have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks!

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr a2:fb:27:bf:20:19
          inet addr:192.168.7.2  Bcast:192.168.7.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::b60b:c715:4afa:9509/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[agitprop]

Someone please answer this one! I am in the exact same shoes

[aBUGSworstnightmare]

Hi,

I configured the Zero like below:

1.) prepare a fresh uSD card with latest Raspbian image (at time of writing 2016-05-27)
2.) still on the host computer change two files on the uSD:
2.1) open 'config.txt' and add below code at the end of the file

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# Enable USB ethernet gadget
dtoverlay=dwc2

2.1. open 'cmdline.txt' and insert modules-load=dwc2,g_ether after rootwait
The new file now looks like this

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dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait modules-load=dwc2,g_ether quiet init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh

3.) insert the uSD card into your zero, connect a micro USB cable and connect the zero to your Macbook. The Zero will now boot for the first time.
4.) With the Zero connected check SYSTEM PREFERENCES->NETWORK for RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget
Looks like this for me:

RDIS/Ethernet Gadget connected

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5.) open TERMINAL and type

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ssh [email protected]

to connect to your ZERO (will take a little longer on first time. You should see the PI prompt ...

SSH into the Pi via USB cable

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6.) You can share your internet connection with the gadget next. Click SYSTEM PREFERENCES->SHARING and enable internet sharing for the ZERO

Internet sharing enabled

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7.) I like to use VNC connection in favor of SSH, that's why I install x11vnc. Look here for a small how-to viewtopic.php?p=1000517#p1000517

aBUGSworstnightmare

[aBUGSworstnightmare]

By the way: you can use SSH and VNC in parallel if you want to/need to (for whatever reason)

SSH and VNC connected at the same time to ZERO USB ethernet gadget

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[picky-picasso]

Never get past 5. I do EVERYTHING as listed here (it's not very difficult, it's only three steps) and the RNDIS gadget NEVER shows up in

Well - three steps after flashing the OS:

1. Flash
2. Change cmdline.txt
3. Change config.txt
4. create SSH file to enable SSH

Networking, ssh [email protected] always brings the same response (couldn't be resolved.)

this is wether I use Stretch, Jessie, light or full. I've tried Jessie from 2016, 2017 and 2018 (went online to find an old version, and it was newer than the two I had tried before)

PLEASE advise. Has something been changed?? Is there some way I can be sure about RNDIS? Is there someway the driver is not working.

Please do not respond with the four steps above - they are the ONLY information posted about doing this and I know how to do them. They do not work for me.

Please HELP!

Thank you in advance.

pp

[brainscan]

I had the same issue, and solved it by using a different Micro USB cable. I don't know if the first one was somehow for power only, or damaged because I was using it as a charging cable. But, I found another Micro USB cable, and connected it up the same way, and now it works!

[oschettler]

Never get past 5. I do EVERYTHING as listed here (it's not very difficult, it's only three steps) and the RNDIS gadget NEVER shows up in

There were two things I had to do:

1. Make sure to use the middle USB socket on the Pi Zero, the one marked with the USB signal on the case.
2. Manually add the RNDIS device in my network configuration:



Then I could ping the Pi Zero.

-- Olav