On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 20:22 +0200, David Eriksson wrote:
> 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?
It seems so, yes:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=36316
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adamw
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