On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:06 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'd like to have tethering with WM devices working out of the box in
> Mandriva 2009.
>
> (For anyone who doesn't know - 'tethering' is using the mobile device as
> a modem, having it connected to your PC and letting your PC use its
> internet connection).
>
> Right now it seems that the usb_rndis_lite version of the kernel modules
> supports this, but the kernel.org version doesn't. Diffing rndis_host.c
> I can see this obvious difference:
>
> @@ -576,7 +711,11 @@
> /* "ActiveSync" is an undocumented variant of RNDIS, used in WM5 */
> USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_MISC, 1, 1),
> .driver_info = (unsigned long) &rndis_info,
> -},
> +}, {
> + /* RNDIS for HTC tethering */
> + USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_WIRELESS_CONTROLLER, 1, 3),
> + .driver_info = (unsigned long) &rndis_info,
> +},
> { }, // END
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb, products);
>
> but is that all that's needed? Is there more? Is there any reason we
> cannot submit this change to upstream kernel devs so we can have
> tethering support in the kernel.org modules? Thanks!
Is this actually working? Can anyone confirm?
Best regards,
David Eriksson
http://www.divideandconquer.se/
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