From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 11 8:32:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5611E1553B for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA49968; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA19908; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <199908111525.IAA19908@whistle.com> Subject: Re: USB hub + Ethernet (Entrega 3U1E) In-Reply-To: from Dirk-Willem van Gulik at "Aug 11, 99 11:19:23 am" To: dirkx@webweaving.org (Dirk-Willem van Gulik) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dirk-Willem van Gulik writes: | On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Annelise Anderson wrote: | > This usb hub with built-in ethernet works fine in Windows98 | > on my Sony VAIO C1X (thus, no pccard needed for ethernet access) | > and is "found" by FreeBSD but I assume there's no driver for the | > ethernet connection (or the floppy). | | > I'm just curious whether there is likely to be support | > for this sort of thing or whether it requires the cooperation of | > Entrega in providing information, or what. | | Have a look at the USB effort; www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb. | | There are some points there which might be of help. Do you have any idea | as to what is inside the unit ? If it looks like the other Entrega unit's | you might want to ask around on the maining list there. Hmm, I wonder if they use an Anchor core to drive the ethernet. I forget but someone made a device with an 8051 & ethernet chip. Annelise, why don't you try popping the thing open and read off the chip numbers. I can finally build Anchor firmware reliably by netbooting DOS off my laptop and mounting the Anchor tree via smb. Now on to proving I can talk to it. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message