On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jeff Kwan wrote:
> OK, I'm probably over my head here... But maybe some of this info will be
> helpful. (maybe?) I was checking the FreeBSD source base and I found the
> firmware. I have no idea how Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (the guy
> who wrote the FreeBSD driver) got it, but it's there. The source for the
> driver in FreeBSD is fairly well documented but I don't know about
> FreeBSD<->Linux driver similarities and whether or not copying from them
> is allowed.
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.0/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/sys/dev/usb/
I looked at that that source.
The BSD source code is useless to start from, but the programming interface
is almost exactly the same as the CATC, except for the firmware download
issue. I could do a working alpha-test driver in less than a day with my
current URB net-skeleton code.
> (Look under the kue files, my guess is that it's kue = KLSI USB Ethernet
> ) kue_fw.h is where firmware is ... No idea where that was obtained from
> and no idea how it works (lots of hex. =) ).
The Big Problem: Binary *downloaded* firmware isn't a GPL problem. But we
don't have a license to the firmware. Everyone would have to download and
merge the firmware themselves.
> Oh, yeah add D-Link DSB-H3E to the Kawasaki LSI KU5KUSB101B-based USB ethernet NICs
>list, it's a 3 port hub plus the Ethernet adapter.
Lots of people are lusting after that product. If D-Link would combine that
with the similar hubs to end with 2*PS/2, 1S, 1P + 3 USB it would be the
perfect laptop docking station (sans VGA out).
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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