Re: USB gadget support?

[Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard mentor com>]

On 03/01/2012 09:47 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 17:58 -0800, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > I have F16 here (NM 0.9.2) with a Beagleboard doing USB gadget
> > networking, and NM seems to be treating the wired and USB connections as
> > the same thing. After booting the Beagleboard, I get two "Wired" items
> > in the NM connection list, but they are sharing a single configuration.
> > This is a problem because I need to share my host's ethernet in order to
> > give the Beagleboard connectivity -- definitely not the same configuration.
> > When I click the "+" button for a new configuration, my only option is VPN.
> >
> > I'm sure I had this working in F14 or F15, but I can't remember how. Am
> > I missing something simple? Thanks!
> [...]
> Anyway, if you can get stable MAC addresses, then lock the connections
> in nm-connection-editor to the MAC address of the interface and it
> should work exactly as you expect.  Let me know how it goes.
Ah ha... nm-connection-editor is the app I remember. I guess the NM 
applet in Gnome 3 has regressed from Gnome 2, and that's the only way I 
knew to configure this stuff.

Thanks for the hint; I should be good now. :)

Hollis Blanchard
Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division