G_Ether for USB with Dietpi on Pi Zero?

Troubleshooting
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On a running DietPi system, you have to edit:

nano /Dietpi/config.txt and add:

## for USB Ethernet driver
## Open up "/boot/cmdline.txt" and add "modules-load=dwc2,g_ether" after "rootwait"
dtoverlay=dwc2

as well. If you edit SD-Card in a card-reader on your host computer, you have to edit:

  • Open up the “boot” partition and edit “config.txt”, adding “dtoverlay=dwc2” to the bottom
  • Open up “cmdline.txt” and add “modules-load=dwc2,g_ether” after “rootwait”

After restart have a look in dmesg

[    5.194515] g_ether gadget: Ethernet Gadget, version: Memorial Day 2008
[    5.195979] g_ether gadget: g_ether ready
[    5.197409] dwc2 20980000.usb: dwc2_hsotg_enqueue_setup: failed queue (-11)
[    5.201958] dwc2 20980000.usb: bound driver g_ether
[    5.389216] dwc2 20980000.usb: new device is high-speed
[    5.481414] dwc2 20980000.usb: new device is high-speed
[    5.518094] dwc2 20980000.usb: new address 31
[    5.574640] g_ether gadget: high-speed config #2: RNDIS
....

… and have a look at: Raspberrt Pi Zero USB Device? - #2 by k-plan

pi@RPi-Zero-W_Radio:~ $ ifconfig usb0

usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 5a:a6:ce:db:b8:8f
          inet Adresse:192.168.7.2  Bcast:192.168.7.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6-Adresse: fe80::58a6:ceff:fedb:b88f/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metrik:1
          RX packets:288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
          RX bytes:20557 (20.0 KiB)  TX bytes:75423 (73.6 KiB)

… and from now on never again use dietpi-config ==> Network to change your network settings