Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:52:05 -0800 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] RNDIS Gadget Driver |
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Robert Schwebel wrote: > David, > > finally, here is our RNDIS USB Gadget Driver - see the attached patch > against the gadget-2.4 BK tree as of now. It shouldn't be too difficult > to port this to 2.6.
Yowsza! I've been looking forward to this ... :)
I'll look it over and see how the 2.6 merge goes, and probably run some revisions by you. The autoconfiguration updates will make this more complicated, since g_ether is starting to support a more dynamic configuration model; the HH.org crew need that, so PDA Linux distros don't need to hard-wire as much knowledge about hardware targets into their kernels.
> The patch adds support for Microsoft's RNDIS protocol to the standard > g_ether driver. This makes it possible to connect a Linux USB gadget to > any standard Windows machine and <*PALIM!*> there is a new USB network > interface on the Windows side on which you can speak TCP/IP :-)
Which is exactly what a lot of Linux solution providers need to see; I'm sure this will get a lot of use. Applause!
(Although I personally would prefer that Microsoft adopt vendor-neutral protocols, instead of pushing the rest of the industry to adopt things that are MSFT-biased ... for some reason, they haven't listened to almost anyone on such topics. Oh well. ;)
> Unfortunately, although it works with the original Microsoft driver, you > need an inf file on the windows side; you can download the template for > that directly from M$. > > Thanks to Auerswald GmbH for sponsoring this work!
I'll add them to the official "thank you" list on the http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget webpage.
- Dave
> Robert > >
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