From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 21:35:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1E116A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA5E43D1F for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBM5Z6E7033991; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:05:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:05:03 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <16358.28260.695219.464322@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <16358.28260.695219.464322@canoe.dclg.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312221605.03196.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: USB link cables. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 05:35:27 -0000 On Monday 22 December 2003 14:39, David Gilbert wrote: > Has anyone looked into supporting USB link cables? I see a number of > these on eBay ... they appear to have two usb host connectors and some > small bit of electronics (by the description). Are these propriatary > ... or is there some sensible way this would work? There's a linux driver for some models. http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ If it's FreeBSD to FreeBSD and they both have firewire you could use if_fwe (which is nonstandard unfortunately). Of course there's also ethernet :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5