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
Aren’t sysfs entries supposed to be created by kernel modules?
Hey, you need to also
modprobe usb_f_uvcat the beggining, right aftermodprobe libcompositeno 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
IDK how all that works but I will say that the result of this would (in a normal filesystem) create a link named
configs/c.1/uvc.usb0yes, but that link would point tofunctions/uvc.usb0relative to its own dir. This doesn’t exist and your symlink would be broken, presumably the special file system there doesn’t like that.

