Andy: The following is an outline of what to do to connect a PocketBeagle to the internet via the USB cable to a Windows 10 desktop which is connected to the Internet via hardwire Ethernet.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ethernet over USB Tether Gadget ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is to connect a PocketBeagle to the Internet through the USB connection to a Windows 10 desktop, which is connected by hardwire Ethernet to the Internet. I used 'Etcher' to load a fresh copy of the latest 'stretch' version of Debian 9.1 onto the Pocketbone. bone-debian-9.1-iot-armhf-2017-10-01-4gb.img Plug the PocketBeagle into an open USB port on your Windows 10 desktop The four LEDs should start blinking, and after about a minute or so, a new USB serial device should appear in Device Manager\Ports(COM&LPT), and a new Remote NDIS Compatible Device should appear in Device Manager\Network Adaptors Also, a new Ethernet interface will appear in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections. It will be described as "Unidentified Network", Remote NDIS Compatible Device Use Putty to connect to the new COM port log into the PocketBeagle now type sudo /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.7.1 Now, on the Windows 10 desktop, go to and open your primary Ethernet interface: Ethernet\Properties\Sharing\ Check the two sharing boxes. Enter the name of the new NDIS Device interface into the box. [In my case it was Ethernet 2 ] Click 'OK' and exit the interface box Now open the Unidentified Network\NDIS Device interface\Properties\Internet Protocol Version 4\Properties Click 'Use the following IP address' Enter 192.168.7.1 as the IP address Enter 255.255.255.0 as the Subnet Mask Click 'Use the following DNS server addresses' Enter 8.8.8.8 as the Preferred DNS server. Click 'OK' and 'Close' to exit Now go to the PocketBeagle command line on Putty sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf down-arrow to get past the comment line enter 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' [without the quotes] enter <return> enter <control-X>, then 'Y', <return> to exit [without the quotes] The Ethernet tether gadget should be operational. To test, type 'ping google.com' in the command line. [without the quotes] It should run and see the ping replies. type <control-c> to abort. You should now have internet access and can sudo apt-get update The two entries in the PockBeagle are not persistent, so after any reboot, you will have to repeat the two entries in the PocketBeagle to get the internet tether gadget running again. There is more information here ... https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/how-to-connect-a-beaglebone-black-to-the-internet-using-usb/cdf66181b3a5436e9ad730e4ed4cf9ee == -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/9f6b9e7a-75f4-4800-bd07-2dfc65970e21%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
