On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:28 +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote: > On 2/13/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:02:57PM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote: > > > On 2/13/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:46PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: > > > >> > Would it be helpful for linux usb device driver developers to have a > > > >> > wireshark dissector that could capture and show the USB > > > >> > data passed between one such windows client and a windows server for > > > >> > USB over IP? > > > > > > > >What devices have USB data travelling over IP? > > > > > > http://www.fabulatech.com/usb-over-network.html > > > http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/share-usb-devices-over-ip-network.asp > > > http://www.digi.com/pdf/prd_usb_anywhereusb.pdf > > > > > > There seems to be a pretty large number of different implementations > > > around for windows to extend the USB bus across a TCP/IP network. > > > > As it's just software (with the exception of the digi devices), they are > > free to create whatever they want as a protocol. > > > > I suggest that if someone really wants this kind of feature in Linux, > > My suggestion was not to implement support for those products or > features in linux. > My suggestion was an offer to provide a tool to collect data on how a > windows driver talks to a device plugged into a windows box so that > linux driver developers could study how and what data is exchanged > between driver and device during initialization and management of said > device. > > > Please let me try again: > > Assume very exotic USB device X exists. > Assume it would be desireable to be able to use this device with Linux. > Assume that unfortunately there exists no documentation on how to > initialize or drive device X. This makes it very difficult to write a > driver for Linux for this device. > Assume that only drivers and applications exist for windows to utilize > this device.
Could go the route of using a virtual machine running Windows that has usb support. Most of the vm environments, like vmware, go through usbfs. That traffic can be shown through libpcap -> wireshark thanks to Paolo's work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
