Re: [iPAQ] USB Client/Server Drivers

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Glenn Neufeld wrote:

> At 02:10 PM 9/22/00 +1000, Dirk van Hennekeler wrote:
> >I've checked in the relevant files you were talking about - hopefully you
> >should have everything.
>
>
> Thanks so much - I appreciate you taking the time to find these! Today is
> my birthday, and since I decided I had to have usb net access to my
> Dyna-i-Paq (w/apologies to Alan Kaye), it's a great gift...

Tell me how it is going. I was about to give it a kick this weekend.

> I actually got one of the list structures reverse engineered enough to
> compile through ...list.h, but this is way better; waiting a bit made me
> read through the code (and it's forebear's) - I might actually know enough
> to pull this off!

Something worth looking at is linux/drivers/usb/net1080.c in the latest
USB kernel patch:

/*
 * NetChip 1080 Driver (USB Host-to-Host Link)
 * Copyright (C) 2000 by David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
 */

/*
 * This talks to the NetChip 1080, which can appear in "network cables"
 * and other designs. This driver interoperates with the Win32 network
 * drivers from NetChip, using the NetChip reference design.
 *
 * The IP-over-USB protocol here may be of interest. Embedded devices
 * could implement it at the cost of two bulk endpoints, and whatever
 * other system resources the desired IP-based applications need.
 * Some Linux palmtops could support that today.
 * [...]

This could be very interesting, since the host driver is already there,
and it should be interoperable with Windows boxes already, etc.

> Getting even cLoSeR....

If you get to a milestone, please share your progress with me.

Nicolas
Received on Fri Sep 22 07:14:39 2000