Bug#593109: r64784 - in trunk/packages/hw-detect: . debian
[Thibaut GIRKA] Author: thibg-guest Date: Sat Sep 18 19:34:12 2010 New Revision: 64784 Log: The g_ether module is used to provide networking over USB on the Openmoko phones. Register it in order to have network in the installed system. Closes #593109 While I am fine with the patch as a solution for this problem, can someone explain why the installed system do not load this module on its own, for example using udev autodetection? I would expect that to be the correct fix to such problems. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#593109: r64784 - in trunk/packages/hw-detect: . debian
Le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à 21:39 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : While I am fine with the patch as a solution for this problem, can someone explain why the installed system do not load this module on its own, for example using udev autodetection? While the USB port is the main network interface of the Neo Freerunner (along with the buggy wireless that's unusable in many situations), the USB port can be used for many other things. g_ether is not really a device driver, but a USB gadget module, like g_filestorage (that provides USB Mass Storage), and other things like that. So, you have a wide choice of modules, and I'm not aware of anything to switch between them. Regards, Thibaut Girka. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#593109: r64784 - in trunk/packages/hw-detect: . debian
[Thibaut Girka] g_ether is not really a device driver, but a USB gadget module, like g_filestorage (that provides USB Mass Storage), and other things like that. Not quite sure I understand what this mean. But I take it that there is USB device with some well known USB ID to detect for udev? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#593109: r64784 - in trunk/packages/hw-detect: . debian
Le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à 22:13 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : [Thibaut Girka] g_ether is not really a device driver, but a USB gadget module, like g_filestorage (that provides USB Mass Storage), and other things like that. Not quite sure I understand what this mean. But I take it that there is USB device with some well known USB ID to detect for udev? Well, what I mean is that the driver itself (which g_ether is not) is not all: you have to choose how you want the device to behave: as an USB key (USB Mass Storage)? A network adaptater? A serial console? All those things are done by different modules (like g_ether), that are independent from the driver itself. In our case, the USB interface is the only usable network interface. Furthermore, the other modules are not really useful on this device (well, g_filestorage might be, but has important limitations afaik). http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
