On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 04 15:33:05, [email protected] wrote: > > Has anyone had any luck getting urndis(4) to work with their mobile > > I have, with many an android, before I switched to having > the android serve as a wifi access point without the cablage. > > > device, mainly with the original PinePhone? Is there something I'm > > missing? For the record, I plugged in my OnePlus 6T and urndis(4) > > didn't show up either. Similar message as above in xconsole, but > > identified as the OnePlus 6T. > > I believe some phones can be set to either expose or not expose > the urndis device. Do you have that turned on? > > Do you get urndis with some other phone (any)? > > Jan >
Hello Jan, Yeah, I've had no problems using the OnePlus's Android hotspot option to connect the OpenBSD laptop for Internet access, but this is mainly to mount the PinePhone (or any phone) as a network device, since the PinePhone ideally needs this connection in order to update postmarketOS properly (not ideal, I know, but doing it from the installed OS on the PinePhone has left me without an interface to access during major upgrades). Fedora Linux does detect both when plugged in, and on there, the PinePhone does cause a network device to show up when "ip addr" is called, albeit with a nonsensical name as opposed to something sensible like "urndis0". I can only assume that if the option to expose it were disabled, Fedora wouldn't have detected it either. Unfortunately, these are the only phones I personally own that I can test with. The only other option would be to test with a stock 7.8 installation and see if it just happens to be an issue with -current. I'll check and report back. Thanks, -Claudio
