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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2004 10:25:40 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@tobuj.gank.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB ethernet CDC driver
Message-ID:  <1085358339.10526.28.camel@dirk>
In-Reply-To: <200405231512.14217.craig@tobuj.gank.org>
References:  <1085318525.10526.25.camel@dirk> <200405231512.14217.craig@tobuj.gank.org>

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That would be great, I would love to take a look at it.

Sam

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:12, Craig Boston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 23 May 2004 8:22 am, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> > Do we have generic support for the USB CDC Ethernet class? I can't find
> > anything to suggest we do. If not I plan to have a go at writing it.
> >
> > I just installed linux on my ipaq. It masquerades as an ethernet class
> > device in order to communicate with the host PC. Assuming we don't
> > already have support, it looks like this will enable the use of a number
> > of devices.
> 
> I don't think there is any support in the tree, however I wrote a minimal CDC 
> Ethernet driver a while back in order to talk to my Zaurus.  Been meaning to 
> throw it up on a web page or something but I just keep getting too busy :-/
> 
> It's pretty bare-bones -- doesn't implement some of the features that a "real" 
> CDC NIC would (multicast, etc.), but is enough to talk to simple devices like 
> the Zaurus.  I've never tested it on anything else -- I suspect it wouldn't 
> be too hard to adapt though.  If you're interested in looking at it I'll send 
> you a copy or post it somewhere.
> 
> Craig
> 



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