u/Embarrassed_Lie_7642

I’m trying to SSH into a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W over USB on Windows 11 using a microUSB data cable.

No matter what I do, Windows only shows it as a USB Serial Device (COM4) instead of a USB Ethernet/RNDIS device, so I can’t SSH over USB.

I’ve tried fresh installs, enabling SSH, editing cmdline.txt for g_ether, setting dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=peripheral, and different cables/ports, but it always ends up as a COM port.

I just need USB SSH working—what am I missing?