Subject: Re: USB Ethernet interface
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 05/18/1999 16:12:35
On Wed, 19 May 1999 01:09:59 +0200
Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> wrote:
> > ugen0 at uhub0 port 1
> > ugen0: ATEN Inc. USB-Ethernet, rev 1.00/0.02, addr 3
> >
> > I'm trying to get docs out of ATEN, but does anyone know if USB-Ethernet
> > is standardized at all?
>
> Yes, it is. It's in the com class spec (which is the union of umpteen wildly
> different
> things). It looks reasonably simple to write a driver for. BUT, when I last
> looked
> at Ethernet adapters there were none that followed the standard. :-(
> Good luck in getting the info from ATEN; many of these companies seem
> paranoid about telling you anything.
> If you do get the specs I'll be happy to help in the driver implementation.
Well, it's worth noting that it called it USB-Ethernet, even though the
ATEN product ID for this device isn't in the usbdevs database... is that
promising? :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>