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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2017 22:20:46 +0200
From:      Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-usb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: USB/U3G: Added support for Panasonic CF-F9 GOBI 3G modem to U3G module
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On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 20:59 +0200, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 20:17 +0200, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>> > >
>> > > [...old stuff...]
>> I have verified on uath device (more on that below) and it turns out
>> $cdev works fine.. but it returns /dev/usb/X.Y.Z not the /dev/cuaU0
>> which does not work with this "gobi_loader" utility which requires
>> /dev/cuaU0 (CDC / serial port device)... any clues how to replace
>> $cdev with cuaUX? :-)
>>
>> Regarding the UATH, I have TP-LINK TL-WN822N Ver2.0 based on Atheros
>> 9002[1] and it seems to work with modified /dev/devd/uath.conf but
>> the
>> uathload returns "Operation not permitted" when executed as root and
>> during boot..
>>
>> [1] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN822N_v2
>>
>
> Hmmm.  I think we need to key off the tty 'attach' event instead of the
> devfs 'create' event.  The tty attach for a usb device is the one event
> that has all the info we need in one message.  This is assuming the
> device name in dmesg on attach is u3g0 or u3g1 or whatever.
>
> attach 100 {
>         device-name             "(u3g)[0-9]+";
>         match "vendor"          "0x04da";
>         match "product"         "0x250e";
>         action "/usr/local/bin/gobi_loader /dev/cua$ttyname /boot/firmware/gobi/";
> };
>
> The way I arrived at this conclusion was to first look in the devd
> source to figure out/remind myself that devd creates variables from all
> the tag=value tuples it finds in the events coming from the kernel.
>  Then I connected to devd using netcat so I could watch the events as
> they happen:
>
>   nc -U /var/run/devd.pipe
>
> then I plugged in a usb-serial adapter (I have no u3g stuff), which
> creates a whole lot of events.  The last one was the tty attach:
>
> +uplcom0 at bus=1 hubaddr=1 port=1 devaddr=2 interface=0 ugen=ugen1.2
> vendor=0x067b product=0x2303 devclass=0x00 devsubclass=0x00
> devproto=0x00 sernum="" release=0x0300 mode=host intclass=0xff
> intsubclass=0x00 intprotocol=0x00 ttyname=U0 ttyports=1 on uhub1
>
> The '+' means it's an attach, the "device-name" variable is set from
> the space-delimited word after the +, and then vars are created from
> all the tag=value tuples between 'at' and 'on'.  So that gives us the
> info to match product and vendor, and ttyname is the suffix to append
> to /dev/cua to make the cdev name.
>
> -- Ian

Awsome! That works!! Thank you Ian!! Thank you for pointing out how
that was achieved! :-)

Is there any way to echo something out to the console to notify user
that firmware is being updated? This takes some time and it would be
nice to see something happens in the background.. I cannot see
anything with action "logging blah"; maybe no need for that?

-- 
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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