Ehernet UI in settings menu

[AlejandroPerezRuiz]

I have a particular problem with Android 7 in rpi3. I have compiled Android 7 for my rpi3 and I only have the possibility to connect via ethernet, but I am using a switch witouth DHCP, so I need to put a static IP. However, there is no option in the settings to set a static IP for ethernet, is there any way to activate this option?

[gw0]

As a workaround, you may connect over ADB and manually setup the static IP with ip or ifconfig. If you have DHCP, it automatically connects.

[ikalkov]

@gw0, are you aware of the exact command format? I tried several approaches, but without a DHCP I can't ping in either direction. I have to admit, my experiences with networt setup are very limited.

[nikiwaibel]

it seems the latest android x86 has no ethernet gui settings either. for JB and ICS there was a patch: https://github.com/gxben/aosp-ethernet

[gw0]

@ikalkov Yes, now that I finally have a working build I can confirm that the standard Linux ip command is available. It works as it should, but Android 7 uses a more complex networking setup as usual, therefore one needs to specify the routing table to use. I connected over WiFi to get into ADB and used something commands like:

$ ip link set eth0 up
$ ip addr add 192.168.1.10/24 dev eth0
$ ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 table legacy_network

Where 192.168.1.10 is the IP address of RPi3 and 192.168.1.1 is your gateway (eg. router or forwarding server).

[nikiwaibel]

do we really have no patch for 7.1 that integrates the ethernet settings in the Settings.apk!? i found

• https://github.com/gxben/aosp-ethernet (only for JB and ICS)
• http://elinux.org/images/9/98/Dive_Into_Android_Networking-_Adding_Ethernet_Connectivity.pdf

[nikiwaibel]

do we really have no patch for 7.1 that integrates the ethernet settings in the Settings.apk!? i found

• https://github.com/gxben/aosp-ethernet (only for JB and ICS)
• http://elinux.org/images/9/98/Dive_Into_Android_Networking-_Adding_Ethernet_Connectivity.pdf

it seems there is no ethernet settings in AOSP, lineageos and android-x86 :,-(

[gw0]

@ikalkov The above commands to manually configure an Ethernet interface (even without WiFi) work, but unfortunately DNS does not (browser says net::ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED). To setup DNS the only command that worked for me:

$ ndc resolver setnetdns eth0 . 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

• https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/wiki/DNS#resolver-commands

So theoretically if you put this commands into init.rc it would setup Ethernet networking at boot time.

[parinpatel]

@nikiwaibel Hi
Did you find any patch for adding "Ethernet UI in the settings menu" [Android 7.1.1]?