Why not use a 25cm / 50cm charging cable? it work for me to power raspberry pis before. Use a good quality cable, not those flat / thin cables, because in the newer pi versions I had power supply issues (at least that is what it said on the boot log)
Yehuda ------------------------------ *Yehuda Deutsch | IT Developer* On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 4:55 PM Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess this is only "partially" OT because it concerns connecting a > raspberry PI Zero to a Ubuntu box over USB (USB networking). > > This works fine with a standard phone charger cable - Male Micro USB > connects to the PI and Male standard USB connects to the computer. > > But since I didn't want the long cable, I thought I could replace it > with an OTG adapter + a Male-Male USB connector. This DOES NOT work - > probably because the 5th pin of the OTG adapter is connected to ground. > > My question: does anyone know where I can find a male micro to > standard female (or male) USB adapter that is NOT wired as OTG? > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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