I want to create a USB gadget with a raspberry pi zero 2W. I’m starting with imitating a webcam I already have to see how much of this I can figure out. I’ve used the online documentation and a couple AI bots to get this far quickly, but I’m hung up on a ln command. It’s telling me “ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘configs/c.1/uvc.usb0’: No such file or directory” when trying to create the link. This makes no sense to me though. I’m trying to create the link, of course it doesn’t exist yet. That’s what that command is supposed to do.

I’ve confirmed this problem in alpine linux and raspbian lite.

Below is the little script I have so far just to create the device:

#!/bin/bash
modprobe libcomposite
cd /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/
mkdir -p fauxcam
cd fauxcam
echo 0x046d > idVendor  # Logitech Vendor ID
echo 0x094b > idProduct # Brio 105 Product ID
echo 0x0200 > bcdUSB
echo 0x9914 > bcdDevice
mkdir -p strings/0x409
echo "111111111111" > strings/0x409/serialnumber
echo "Brio 105" > strings/0x409/product
mkdir -p configs/c.1/strings/0x409
echo "UVC Configuration" > configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration
echo 250 > configs/c.1/MaxPower
mkdir -p functions/uvc.usb0
ln -s functions/uvc.usb0 configs/c.1/
echo "usb0" > UDC
  • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    Hey, you need to also modprobe usb_f_uvc at the beggining, right after modprobe libcomposite

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      13 hours ago

      no change

      ln: failed to create symbolic link 'configs/c.1/uvc.usb0': No such file or directory
      ./fauxcam-gadget.sh: line 19: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
      
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          5 hours ago

          Looking at those units I noticed something… ExecStart=/usr/bin/ln -s ${GADGET}/functions/uvc.0 ${GADGET}/configs/a.1/

          It’s an a.1 instead of a c.1. Surely it couldn’t be as simple as just using a different letter, could it?

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              5 hours ago

              Once I crack this, I think it could be fun to create a script that could spoof devices plugged into it with the gadget framework. Could save me a lot of trouble creating known-working usb configs down the road. Instead of starting from scratch each time, I would just have to tweak an existing profile.

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                  1 hour ago

                  Honestly it’s just an idea to suck up time at this point. I do NOT have the skills for this shit, as we can see here. I can correct what ChatGPT gets wrong though and just run with that.