Can the OPI5 be Configured to Run LCNC?

Life would become easier if you grabbed a couple of ubiquiti nanostations and built  a wireless bridge to your workshop. These are cheap PoE radio Devices that come with a power injector so they just need a network cable  to them. In your workshop, attach a wifi router inside your workshop. We ran a 800m link this way for years...

Yup, updates are over a network or sneakernet and local repo similar to this

askubuntu.com/questions/170348/how-to-cr...local-apt-repository

www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-offline/

echristley wrote:

Word to the wise: LinuxCNC has a base presumption that all computers are network connected. This breaks things in spectacular fashion once you embed your newly configured into a big machine tool in a shop with no network access, and then you want to improve your installation.

LinuxCNC does not require internet ever after initial installation, the other projects you want to use do, so checking beforehand if those projects are included with LinuxCNC would save you a lot of time and grief.
So, other projects require internet, do not blame LinuxCNC.

If you've got an Android phone, most of them has the option to share internet over USB and it will come up as an Ethernet adapter. Or setup a WiFi hotspot and plugin a Wifi USB adapter

Well, that almost went well.
I ran out and hooked my phone up. USB Tethering was grayed out as an option, so I verified it would work on my Mac. It worked. After some investigation I found out I needed to install "g_ether" to use USB Tethering on Armbian. But, I don't have g_ether on the machine. And it appears that g_ether is now "legacy"?
Any idea on how I can get an OPi5 to recognize a USB tethered phone as a network interface?
Anyway, I finally got frustrated in broke down the mills electronic enclosure to pull the computer and bring it inside. Used apt-get to install python3-scipy, python3-numpy, linuxcnc-uspace-dev, and python3-qt5.
Are there any other packages that I should consider loading while I have it network connected?

I hate this forum, wrote a lot, press "Submit", session is expired and everything is gone.
Anyway, I've tested it on the OPi5 with LinuxCNC and that doesn't work indeed, it did work on my other installation. I believe that g_ether is meant to tether from Linux to another device. The easiest solution would be to use an USB WiFi dongle in the OPi5 and setup a hotspot on your phone.
Otherwise recompile the kernel with the RNDIS drivers enabled. Or if your Mac is a Macbook, perhaps you could share the RNDIS connection from your phone over LAN to the OPi5.
Which packages you would need later is hard to predict.