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Pi Zero multiple USB gadgets minimal example
#!/bin/bash -e
modprobe libcomposite
cd /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/
mkdir g && cd g
echo 0x1d6b > idVendor # Linux Foundation
echo 0x0104 > idProduct # Multifunction Composite Gadget
echo 0x0100 > bcdDevice # v1.0.0
echo 0x0200 > bcdUSB # USB 2.0
echo 0xEF > bDeviceClass
echo 0x02 > bDeviceSubClass
echo 0x01 > bDeviceProtocol
mkdir -p strings/0x409
echo "deadbeef00115599" > strings/0x409/serialnumber
echo "irq5 labs" > strings/0x409/manufacturer
echo "Pi Zero Gadget" > strings/0x409/product
mkdir -p functions/acm.usb0 # serial
mkdir -p functions/rndis.usb0 # network
mkdir -p configs/c.1
echo 250 > configs/c.1/MaxPower
ln -s functions/rndis.usb0 configs/c.1/
ln -s functions/acm.usb0 configs/c.1/
# OS descriptors
echo 1 > os_desc/use
echo 0xcd > os_desc/b_vendor_code
echo MSFT100 > os_desc/qw_sign
echo RNDIS > functions/rndis.usb0/os_desc/interface.rndis/compatible_id
echo 5162001 > functions/rndis.usb0/os_desc/interface.rndis/sub_compatible_id
ln -s configs/c.1 os_desc
udevadm settle -t 5 || :
ls /sys/class/udc/ > UDC
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/myusbgadget.service
[Unit]
Description=My USB gadget
After=systemd-modules-load.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/myusbgadget
[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target
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dashxdr commented Sep 3, 2020

Regarding my previous post, I have a new datapoint. I grabbed an older release
linux-raspberrypi-kernel_1.20170215-1.tar.gz
and ran through the steps and everything works as promised. So... something was broken between that release and 5.4.51+:
Linux version 5.4.51+ (dom@buildbot) (gcc version 4.9.3 (crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.22.0-88-g8460611)) #1333 Mon Aug 10 16:38:02 BST 2020
which was the kernel included in the Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) Lite image I grabbed yesterday... released 2020-08-20 and presumably with sha-256
24342f3668f590d368ce9d57322c401cf2e57f3ca969c88cf9f4df238aaec41f

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dashxdr commented Sep 4, 2020

Ok more progress. I've isolated the failure to between two releases:
linux-raspberrypi-kernel_1.20180313-1 GOOD
linux-raspberrypi-kernel_1.20180328-1 BAD

Unfortunately it seems to be a massive overhaul, just doing diff -Nur on the drivers/usb/gadget directories yields a 544kbyte file with 19,253 lines. My contribution is done now.

@hardillb
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I have an open issue against the Raspberry Pi Kernel (raspberrypi/linux#3862) to track this

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rundekugel commented Jun 17, 2021

For the network part, try this:
https://github.com/rundekugel/USBGadgetNetwork

It combines CDC/ECM and RNDIS
It works for Windows10 / Linux and MACos

I didn't try to add additional cdc/acm, but I think, it should work on most OS.

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ValdikSS commented Jan 11, 2025

@nrclark

If you have a working example that provides ACM, ECM, and RNDIS (with ACM/RNDIS working on windows and ACM/ECM working on Mac), it could help me out bigtime.

See this
https://gist.github.com/Leo-PL/1ee48d132bc7a7ccd4657ea1ed7badd8

It includes two alternative configurations (USB term): one with RNDIS+ACM, another with ECM+ACM.

EDIT: nevermind, it doesn't work indeed. Windows stops recognizing ACM as soon as there are two configurations.
Interestingly, this question is about this exact issue has been fixed by using

echo "0xEF" > ${g}/bDeviceClass
echo "0x02" > ${g}/bDeviceSubClass
echo "0x01" > ${g}/bDeviceProtocol

which is already present in the script above. I've tried the snippet from the question with the fix, and it does not work for me.

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macmpi commented Aug 17, 2025

@ValdikSS @Leo-PL and al: any fix found for dual configurations RNDIS+ACM, and ECM+ACM ?
Any alternative approach for such multi-platform gadget?
Thanks.

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macmpi commented Aug 27, 2025

FWIW got the composite construct working with ECM/RNDIS graceful switch on Windows.
Also does a bunch of interface pre-checks, so that it is not Pi -specific.
Is available at https://github.com/macmpi/xg_multi/

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