The g_ether kernel module, in the kernel-module-g-ether package, allows targets to use a USB connection as a network interface. However, that's not useful until the module is loaded.
The usbinit package provides the /etc/init.d/usb-gether script to load the g_ether module at boot, so it should be included along with kernel-module-g-ether.
Tested with core-image-base on beagleboard.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@...>
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diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb b/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb
index 2032432..fda0384 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Merge machine and distro options to create a basic machine task/p
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58 \
file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
-PR = "r73"
+PR = "r74"
inherit task
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ RRECOMMENDS_task-base-usbgadget = "\
kernel-module-gadgetfs \
kernel-module-g-file-storage \
kernel-module-g-serial \
- kernel-module-g-ether"
+ kernel-module-g-ether \
+ usbinit"
RDEPENDS_task-base-usbhost = "\
usbutils "
