Add USB Ethernet adapter

pCP Team 2 January 2021 pCP 6.1.0 Setup • How to USB • Ethernet • netusb

piCorePlayer includes the extension net-usb-KERNEL.tcz on the pCP image for those occasions when you have a RPi with a spare USB port but no Ethernet port and want to connect to a wired network. By default this extension is not loaded.

To facilitate a headless install of net-usb-KERNEL.tcz, piCorePlayer looks for a file named netusb on the boot partition.

USB Ethernet adapter

Step 1

Add an empty file “netusb” to boot partition.
This will instruct piCorePlayer to load the appropriate firmware during the boot process.

Step 2

Insert the USB Ethernet Adapter into the RPi’s USB port.

Step 3

Plug in the ethernet cable into the USB Ethernet Adapter.

Step 4

Turn on the power to boot the RPi.

Firmware

Firmware available in the extension net-usb-5.4.51-pcpCore-v8.tcz

usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/int51x1.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_eem.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/mcs7830.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/hso.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/sr9800.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/asix.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/lg-vl600.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/catc.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/ipheth.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cx82310_eth.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/net1080.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/huawei_cdc_ncm.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_subset.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/zaurus.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/plusb.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/kalmia.ko
usr/local/lib/modules/5.4.51-pcpCore-v8/kernel/drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.ko

Diagnostics

Plug in the USB ethernet adapter and it will probably be automatically detected. View dmesg to determine if it was recognised—see [Main page] > [Diagnostics] > [Logs] > “dmesg” > [Show].

For the 1 Port USB Network with 3 USB Ports USB Ethernet adapter:

[    4.162351] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    4.263140] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1a40, idProduct=0101, bcdDevice= 1.11
[    4.263161] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[    4.263178] usb 1-1.2: Product: USB 2.0 Hub
[    4.264153] hub 1-1.2:1.0: USB hub found
[    4.264339] hub 1-1.2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[    4.396021] random: crng init done
[    4.650296] usb 1-1.2.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[    4.852139] usb 1-1.2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8152, bcdDevice=20.00
[    4.852158] usb 1-1.2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    4.852175] usb 1-1.2.4: Product: USB 10/100 LAN
[    4.852192] usb 1-1.2.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[    4.852208] usb 1-1.2.4: SerialNumber: 00E04C360941
[    5.034312] usb 1-1.2.4: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[    5.266888] r8152 1-1.2.4:1.0 eth1: v1.10.11

tc@piCorePlayer:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B8:27:EB:2C:47:29
          UP BROADCAST 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)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:36:09:41
          inet addr:192.168.1.114  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2703 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:185255 (180.9 KiB)  TX bytes:239065 (233.4 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1152 (1.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1152 (1.1 KiB)

More information

piCorePlayer expects network devices to be named either eth0 or wlan0.
Most things will probably work but there may be situations where the network devices have been hard coded as eth0 or wlan0.

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