Dear all
I was trying to install trixie light (Release from June 18th 2026) on a RPI Zero V1.3 for the last 2 days to no avail. Unfortunately, I have no HDMI-adapter (yet), so I can not see what RPI does. It seems to boot (The ACT led is flickering). With lsusb I see a Raspberry Pi Gadget device after a while. Ethernet over usb however does not work. ifconfig shows the ethernet device. ip link however shows the ethernet device as down and not connected ( NO-CARRIER ). Even if I set an ip adress with ifconfig and set the interface to "up", its state does not change. The console interface /dev/ttyACM0 does also not come up. But this is expected because of the driver not loaded via cmdline.txt)
Which "console interface" on which machine (the zero or the USB host)?
Originally, I had buster running with which everything worked fine. So I assume it is not a hardware issue.
There have been major changes to networking between Buster and Bookworm and more between Bookworm and Trixie.
What did I do?
1) Created a sd with a trixie light image (no desktop to not overburden the RPI Zero V1.3)
How?
If you used Imager, which version? Versions prior to 2.0.0 are not able to configure Trixie.
2) boot/config.txt: I added
dtoverlay=dwc2
to the [all] section
- Wrong file. It's /boot/firmware/config.txt
- Which [all] section?
- Maybe post your entire config.txt (use code tags)
3) boot/cmdline.txt: I added modules-load=dwc2,g_ether: So It locks like this
console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=... rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait modules-load=dwc2,g_ether
Again, Wrong file. It's /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt
And you config.txt and cmdline.txt? I hope the lack of a leading / was a typo or transcription error. /boot/config.txt and boot/config.txt are not the same file.*
You may also want to read Bookworm, Point to Point Ethernet (inc g_ether) (applies mostly to Trixie too), Bookworm vs Bullseye - A Guide (for info on other changes), and USB Ethernet Gadget A Beginner's Guide
*: Unless the pwd is /
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Fri Jul 24, 2026 5:23 pm
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