Re: [iPAQ] Re:strongarm usb networking and Windows. (Nick Bane)

From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks.a.t.compaq.com>
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 09:36:50 EST

Alan Cox wrote:

>>Another point to ponder is that someone may have to pay a
>>Device/Manufacturer ID tax to the USB consortium.
>>
>
>Firstly I'd say you want to emulate an existing class driver to avoid having
>to write any kind of windows driver. You can be a scsi disk, you can be a
>cable modem - take your pick 8)
>
I took a quick look at the USB Communications Class. Emulating a modem
shouldn't be too hard -- the usb-char driver could be adapted to do
this. There did not seem to be something that corresponds to the
usb-net driver -- the closest thing is an ethernet. In this case, you
would have to emulate both the host's and the peripheral's ethernet
device, instead of emulating a point-to-point network connection.

>Secondly we are already using an id for the sa1100_usb net stuff, and that
>shouldnt be a problem.
>
The id in the sa11x0 driver is officially assigned to Compaq Itsy. That
is where the drivers was originally developed.

I have located the source for the Windows driver that went with the
original version of the itsy-eth driver. I was planning to attach a
non-GPL open source license so that it would be buildable using the
Microsoft SDK.

Jamey
Received on Fri Feb 15 06:29:52 2002

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