Troubleshooting • Pi Zero USB Gadget Mode: Stuck as SB Serial Device on Windows 11 x64 (Lenovo)

I am having a persistent driver issue with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in USB Ethernet Gadget mode on a Win11 x64 Lenovo laptop. I am positive I have configured the cmdline.txt and config.txt correctly, as I was able to get it working on another RaspPi0 last year. I have also confirmed that the Pi is booting correctly. I have also tried bother x32 and x64 Lite OS. I am leaning on this being some driver issue associated with with win11 (classic) but, I am not entirely sure since the device manager is able to detect Pi's that were already configured last year. I am completely out of ideas at the movement. No amount of configuring and driver updates is able to get this freshly imaged Pi to be detected as a Ethernet Gadget (RNDIS Drivers). I have even gone to the Lenovo site and installed the win11 specific RNDIS driver and directly install the disk just to get incompatibility message .

I am running out of ideas so some creative ideas would be appreciate.

Statistics: Posted by siegeengineer — Thu Jan 29, 2026 8:45 pm

---