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raybert

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Help with setting up USB networking with C860 & RH9
« on: February 29, 2004, 01:16:23 pm »
Hi,

I\'ve been trying to get my TCP/IP over USB working from my C860 to Red Hat 9.  I\'ve read many HOWTO\'s, etc., but I\'m confused about how to proceed from here.

Many of the HOWTO\'s talk about patching the kernel but I\'m not sure that really applies to RH9.  RH9 comes configured for the Zaurus (5500 and A300, at least) right out of the box.  All I had to do to get my 5500 working was to create an ifcfg-usb0 file and blacklist CDCEther.

I\'ve briefly looked at the source code for usbnet.c and I can see where it has specific device configs for the 5500 and the A300.  I also saw a comment indicating that the A300 entry should work for the 5600 and the C700 series.  This seems to imply that there\'s some way to configure RH9 to use these device configs for the C860.  But I haven\'t been able to discover how to do this.  Is there some way to externally annotate this table or map a new device to these entries (i.e. such as is possible with pcmcia hotplugging)?

It looks like I could easily modify usbnet.c myself to support the C860 just by duplicating the A300 tables and renaming them (and changing the device ID).  But I\'d rather not do this if I don\'t have to.  Is there a way?

Thanks in advance for your help!

~ray