USB Networking

Denis Johnson denis.johnson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 14:06:23 CET 2008


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Tony Berth <tonyberth at googlemail.com> wrote:
> the wiki posted solution was tested by myself on a the currebt debian and
> did work! Are you using the same environment?

I believe so, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 but have had this problem since 8.04.

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Denis Johnson <denis.johnson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have had this setting for months it does not work for me.
>>
>> Whenever I want to connect my FR, I must first plug it in into the usb
>> and then run the following script which someone once posted here or on
>> the #openmoko irc. Until I run ths script I cannot ping and hence ssh
>> into the FR. Unfortunately I don't know enough to integrate and
>> automate what the script does into my interfaces file. If someone can
>> shed some more light, it would be appreciated:
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # Enables Hostside USB-Networking for neo
>> ifconfig usb0 down
>> ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>> iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24
>> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>> iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
>> route add -host 192.168.0.202 gw 192.168.0.200
>> route -n | grep -e "Destination" -e "usb0"
>> ----------------------------------




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