Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Problem with ethernet in Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8' (SM-T330), android 5.1.1



Hi everybody,

I have a problem with the ethernet connection in the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8' WiFi (SM-T330).

I need to connect the tablet to a embedded system through ethernet with a static IP address, and in order to achieve this I use a MicroUSB-RJ45 adapter that in android 4.4.2 works perfectly fine, but when I upgraded to android 5.1.1 the ethernet connection stopped working.

A key requirement I have is that the IP address must be static. This is important because making some research I've connected the tablet to a LAN and with ethernet configured as DHCP and I have internet connection, but when I change the configuration of the connection to a static IP I can't even make ping to the gateway. If I execute in a terminal emulator the command 'netcfg' I can see the interface eth0 up with the correct IP assigned (192.168.1.98). If I run the command 'ip route show' I can see the following in the output:

default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.98

Which is apparently correct IMO, but the fact is that if I ping the 192.168.1.1 address I get "Network is unreachable" error.

Just to compare, the output of 'netcfg' and 'ip route show' in case of DHCP configuration is pretty much the same:

default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 metric 238
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.179 metric 238

But this time everything works fine.

I have no clue why it doesn't work with a static IP. Can anybody help me with this issue? I'm doing something wrong, or this is an android 5.1.1 bug?

Thanks in advance.



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