Jason Thorpe wrote:

> 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?  :-)

Not really, it only means that they have put string descriptors in the device.
I can send you a program to dump all the descriptors in it and then I can tell
you what kind of animal it is.


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        -- Lennart