Hello Everybody,
So i am running into an Issue that i hope someone can help me solve. i am using an RPi4 B with the newest build of Openwrt, i bought an Ethernet Hat via Amazon (https://www.waveshare.com/product/raspberry-pi/hats/eth-usb-hub-hat.htm), its made by wave share, The Hat is using a RTL8152B Ethernet chip, after locating the appropriate Drive (at least from what i read they are correct), after a few tries, including running the usb cable from the pi to the hat, i still cannot get the ethernet port to work, if i plug my laptop into that port i cannot connect to the pi, but i am able to connect via the built on RJ45 port on the pi directly, i know the hat is working because it shows up in the devices during boot as a usb-ethernet adapter, i was able to get raspbian os to briefly regester the hat so i know the hat is not bad. not sure of what i am missing to get this to work via the GPIO. any help and or suggestions would be appreciated
And you installed the appropriate kernel module package?
What do lsmod, lsusb and friends say?
that was the first package i installed after using the rpi wifi to connect to the package store. there was a few others related to that that i also installed.
this is from "lsmod"
root@OpenWrt:~# lsmod
brcmfmac 258048 0
brcmutil 12288 1 brcmfmac
cfg80211 335872 1 brcmfmac
compat 12288 2 brcmfmac,cfg80211
crc_ccitt 12288 1 ppp_async
evdev 28672 0
fat 73728 1 vfat
hid 114688 2 usbhid,hid_generic
hid_generic 12288 0
ip_tables 24576 4 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
ip6_tables 20480 24 ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
ip6t_REJECT 12288 2
ip6table_filter 12288 1
ip6table_mangle 12288 0
ipt_REJECT 12288 2
iptable_filter 12288 1
iptable_mangle 12288 0
iptable_nat 12288 1
nf_conntrack 90112 8 xt_state,xt_nat,xt_conntrack,xt_REDIRECT,xt_MASQUERADE,xt_CT,nf_nat,nf_flow_table
nf_defrag_ipv4 12288 1 nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv6 12288 1 nf_conntrack
nf_flow_table 20480 2 xt_FLOWOFFLOAD,nf_flow_table_hw
nf_flow_table_hw 12288 1
nf_log_common 12288 2 nf_log_ipv4,nf_log_ipv6
nf_log_ipv4 12288 0
nf_log_ipv6 12288 0
nf_nat 36864 4 iptable_nat,xt_nat,xt_REDIRECT,xt_MASQUERADE
nf_reject_ipv4 12288 1 ipt_REJECT
nf_reject_ipv6 12288 1 ip6t_REJECT
nls_cp437 16384 1
nls_iso8859_1 12288 1
nls_utf8 12288 0
ppp_async 20480 0
ppp_generic 40960 3 pppoe,ppp_async,pppox
pppoe 20480 0
pppox 12288 1 pppoe
slhc 12288 1 ppp_generic
snd 73728 9 snd_bcm2835,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_compress
snd_bcm2835 20480 0
snd_compress 20480 0
snd_hwdep 16384 0
snd_mixer_oss 28672 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 90112 3 snd_bcm2835,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_pcm_dmaengine 12288 0
snd_pcm_oss 53248 0
snd_rawmidi 40960 0
snd_seq_device 12288 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 32768 1 snd_pcm
soundcore 12288 1 snd
usbhid 40960 0
vfat 16384 1
x_tables 28672 24 xt_state,xt_nat,xt_conntrack,xt_REDIRECT,xt_MASQUERADE,xt_FLOWOFFLOAD,xt_CT,ipt_REJECT,xt_time,xt_tcpudp,xt_multiport,xt_mark,xt_mac,xt_limit,xt_comment,xt_TCPMSS,xt_LOG,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,ip_tables,ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter,ip6_tables,ip6t_REJECT
xt_CT 12288 0
xt_FLOWOFFLOAD 12288 0
xt_LOG 12288 0
xt_MASQUERADE 12288 1
xt_REDIRECT 12288 0
xt_TCPMSS 12288 0
xt_comment 12288107
xt_conntrack 12288 12
xt_limit 12288 20
xt_mac 12288 0
xt_mark 12288 0
xt_multiport 12288 0
xt_nat 12288 0
xt_state 12288 0
xt_tcpudp 12288 8
xt_time 12288 0
when i went to run lsusb it came back as command not found
Is this a usb device or GPIO / SPI? If it's an SPI device you would need to tell the PI in it's config file to enable to SPI points on the GPIO header.
If it's usb, what is it connecting to the gpio for at all, passthrough and power? Does it work if you just connect it as a usb ethernet to a pc?
It is a GPIO attachment for the GPIO header on the RPi 4. how do i enable that with openwrt installed??
That device appears to be simply a Pi-hat type form factor version of a USB hub with Ethernet. From the look of the hat, it appears that you must connect it via USB to the Pi (using a USB A to USB micro-B cable. I am reasonably certain that the hat doesn't do much (if anything at all) based on the connectivity through the 40-pin header... maybe it gets some power from that header. I don't think that any of the pins on that header can support the speeds required for USB 2.0 and 10/100 ethernet. USB doesn't exist on the 40-pin header, and the RTL8152B is a USB-Ethernet chip, so it needs to get USB from somewhere -- that is why it has the micro-B connector.
it did come with a usb A to micro usb cable, i have plugged it into the pi and the hat board, and i cannot make a connection via the ethernet hat via my laptop or from my switch. it is detected, just cannot get an internet connection or connect from my laptop, i dont mind running the cable if i need to but i do want the use the 2nd RJ45 port..
Run ip link show to confirm that you have two Ethernet ports. The built in port will be eth0 and the extra one eth1. Having an eth1 means that the kernel driver started up the port. The startup and assignment of eth1 will also be in the kernel log-- it will do it once during boot and again if you were to unplug and replug the USB cable. As others said, that chip must have a USB connection in order to work, and since there are no USB signals on the 40 pin header, a separate cable is needed.
Next you would need to actually put eth1 into a network so that it has a path to the kernel networking. The first thing to try would be to add it to br-lan.
Since you have a Pi 4, a USB3 to GbE adapter would work, with the potential for 10x the speed.
Yeah, sorry. For that to work one needs installing them usbutils first.
Yes, it's just a USB to Ethernet dongle on a fancy RPi hat. That's why I asked him to install resp. modules and look at lsusb as well.
Yes, you absolutely need to connect the micro USB of that hat to the regular USB port of your RPi for the USB Ethernet functionality to work. There is absolutely no easy around that.
i will mess with all of this tonight and add an update tomorrow. i appreciate the help from everyone.
That would be the next step once the USB connectivity is confirmed. So far, as long as not even the resp. kernel module gets loaded it will definitely not show up there.
i was attempting to get everything confirmed, and my microsd card died, flashed new copy to a different sd card and after going from my laptop to the rpi4 and connecting to wifi, no luck on connecting to the software store. i shut it off, disconnected the usb cable to the hat then completely removed the pi hat off of the board restart and still no internet connection. tried a few different combos of setting a static ip, no dhcp, turning of firewall, bridging the lan and wifi making sure both were enabled, still no joy on connecting to the store.
What store are you trying to connect to?
What does the dmesg say about network interfaces?
was trying to get to the software package store for openwrt so i can install drivers.
after a fresh install, keeping off the wi-fi connection, reboot i was finally able to install the kmos-usb-rltk8152 driver, i removed the hat from the gpio (for now) and i have two seperate ip addresses, my "lsmod, lsusb, ip link show" are all displaying both an up status, and ip addresses, and it seem that everything is now working, gonna run it for a few more days to make sure but everyone here is super awesome and thank you for the help- more updates to follow..
THANK YOU EVERYONE!! all awesome.