Raspberry Pi Zero USB/Ethernet Gadget Tutorial

Raspberry Pi Zero USB/Ethernet Gadget Tutorial

A single microUSB to USB adapter or cable is all you need to get local networking, power, and internet access to your Raspberry Pi Zero. In a few easy steps you can set up the Pi as a USB/ethernet device and your computer will recognize it just like plug and play printers, scanners, and other devices. Internet access is shared to the Pi from your computer. SSHing and remote desktop access works too. Follow along in the video and I'll show you how to set it up!

[wallaceshackleton]

Three years old and this tutorial was like the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
Thanks, much appreciated.

[davidt]

Got lots of precious information right here. I had been trying to browse around on how to hook up pi zero with pc and this is the most thorough steps on how to do it. This the utmost tutorial after five years later. Thank you Circuit basics and Thank you YouTube.👍👍👍

[FreestyleTraceur]

Worked for me but took some finagling. For some reason even after sharing my computer's wi-fi connection, my pi zero couldn't ping google. Took a few reboots and it did. I think it might have just been taking a bit longer for the connection to get shared. Not a biggie.

What did take some sleuthing though was when I was trying to connect to my pi with Remote Desktop Connection. I kept getting "error - problem connecting". I found a solution on stack exchange. I connected to pi via SSH and then typed the following:

sudo apt-get remove xrdp
sudo apt-get install vnc4server
sudo apt-get install xrdp
sudo service xrdp restart
sudo reboot

After that I was able to pull up the desktop for my pi zero!

Thanks for the guide and video, huge help! Now I need to see if I can just plug my zero into the USB port on my router and if it will still power up and get an internet connection...

[vidhyasagar]

This video saved me from buying HDMI converters and connectors. Thanks for this video. I wish it will work for me without a fight.

[hasnatjamil]

Fantastic tutorial. lowest number of components to up and run raspberry pi zero.

[devinkamer]

On Windows 7, the driver is under Microsoft Corporation instead of Microsoft

[breevwhyman]

is there any way to also tell the pi to simultaneously manifest itself as a USB AUDIO SOUND CARD to the Laptop (on top of all your that the pi somehow sends it's own Rasbian sound into the Laptop....and then we hear it?

[prussian]

Well done video. I have watched a few on this. audio is clear but even with my volume on my phone cranked up bit hard to hear.

[taggerung]

Thank you so much! I pulled out my old pi zero v1.3 and really want to mess around with it but didn't know how to set up the shared wifi!

[TheVideosdedaniel]

Best so far. I seen many video on how to and is a full and complete explanation and steps to follow. thanks great help

[kristopiir]

Nice tutorial. I am win 10 user.
Initially zero was detected as COM Port device.
Just right click on that COM port device, select Update driver", there select RNDIS and there you go.
Thank You!

[louisnichols]

This is very cool. Would it work if you connected more than one pi zero to a PC?

[scrammy]

PLEASE! Make sure to make a text file called SSH in the boot folder (no extension).

[salan]

great video, but how do you do that from Linux? it always seems that you need to use windows to remote use a linux box!

[gordonfreeman]

also under ssh in putty enable x11 it worked for me so I recommend it

[wisteela]

Can you share both WiFi and Ethernet so it will work whichever way you are connected?

[PatricioGhiraldo]

very instructive tutorial... Thanks!!!

[dtc]

windows10 does not support remote ndis driver.I am spend a lots of time but not changed. Bonjour is not working.

[cradledani]

Can't get this working on Windows 10 at all. It's coming up in device manager as Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed). I've tried all usb ports, hubs, uninstalled all usb drivers, reinstalled all drivers, rebooted, you name it. Any ideas?

[DiyintheGhetto]

Hello i followed all your setup as you did it i get no yellow triangle in device manger and i do see the USB Ethernet/RNDIS gadget in the network adapters But i can not ssh into it can you please help me?