Providing internet to motorcortex pc

MankaranSingh

Hi,
Need to do some development on the device running mcx OS. How do I provide internet to it ? the usb network interfaces are disables so usb tethering is not working.

Thanks

philippeH

Hi Mankaran,

This is because we don't have any drives installed to support other USB devices. Which USB device are you using?
Ssh to controller, use lsusb command, send me the results.

Connecting controller to internet is possible checkout the following steps:

Did you install the latest image, from the store?

If not, install 2022.09.04 image

What you can do:
Use ethernet hub connect:

mcx-controller
Ethernet
local computer - network adapter settings 192.168.2.XX
local computer - network adapter DHCP

ssh:
ssh admin@192.168.2.100

mcx-show-ip:

mcx-intel:~$ mcx-show-ip 
br0      192.168.179.83  2a02:a467:d9a9:1:201:c0ff:fe2e:8b23  fe80::1c81:e2ff:fe4e:e0b6  
br0:0    192.168.2.100    
eth0         
eth1         
wlan0    192.168.0.1  fe80::cae2:65ff:fe42:7c28

ssh:
ssh admin@192.168.179.83
Now you are connected via internet

Test:
ping www.google.com

Note: Check if you are not connected to a router within the same network range. A reboot may be require in order to see correct ip address with mcx-show-ip.

Hopefully with this information you can continue, Let me know if you have any questions.

MankaranSingh

Hi @philippeH,

lsusb detects the connected mobile phone but dosent switch gets access to internet with usb thethering.

mcx-show-ip outputs this:

eth0:0   192.168.2.100    
eth1

The controller has 2 ethernet ports. first one is used for ethercat communication and second for client side communication. Do you mean to say that we can use a hub to the second ethernet port and connect both router and client to it ?

the pc also has a wifi card in it but iwlwifi module is disabled.

philippeH

mcx-show-ip, this seems the output of an older image version.

check image version with:

mcx-intel:~$ cat /etc/issue
Motorcortex 2022.09.4-0-g8b6d059 \n \l

You need to install latest MCX-RTOS image (from the store) to your controller.
https://docs.motorcortex.io/docs/getting-started/install-mcxos/

Then connect as followed:

philippeH

Could you send me the output of lsusb?
We are planning to test usb tethering (in the future)

MankaranSingh

mcx-intel:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy series, misc. (MTP mode)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

MankaranSingh

@philippeH is there a way to use internet without updating the image ? I have lots of custom stuff running on the image which i'd need to redo if updated.
current os version is

Motorcortex 2022.09-0-g7abdb1a0

philippeH

Same procedure (this image version also has per default DHCP enabled)

eth0     192.168.179.83  2a02:a467:d9a9:1:201:c0ff:fe2e:8b23  fe80::201:c0ff:fe2e:8b23  
eth0:0   192.168.2.100    
eth1         
wlan0    192.168.0.1  fe80::cae2:65ff:fe42:7c28

Check local computer network settings:
Adapter should be DHCP.

enx302303067afb: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.179.71  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.179.255
        inet6 fe80::2abe:449c:3f8b:d065  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        inet6 2a02:a467:d9a9:1:47f5:323a:10c1:8e99  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 2a02:a467:d9a9:1:86a3:809d:1fd9:dca1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        ether 30:23:03:06:7a:fb  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 737558  bytes 628047821 (628.0 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 154  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 425645  bytes 186054186 (186.0 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

philippeH

If you are using linux as OS, please send me the results if you type ifconfig -a.