On Fri, Jun 17 2011, Mick wrote: > On Friday 17 Jun 2011 11:52:03 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> The forum post does not involve any ms windows code (in is a gentoo >> forum). Indeed it seems perfect ... >> ... except that for me it doesn't work. I has worked for others so >> I must have some configuration (probably the kernel) wrong. >> >> thanks again for trying to help. I appreciate it. >> allan > > Hmm ... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNDIS > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463293 > > > I'm not saying that the code running on Linux is MSWindows (the protocol is) > and RNDIS is of course faster than e.g. a USB-serial connection, but I still > think that you should be able to use USB directly without the RNDIS plug 'n > play protocol. PPP will allow you to do the dialling part over USB. It may > take longer to configure than using RNDIS, but it should work all the same > and > at the same IO speeds. > > Anyhow, if the problem you are trying to solve is how to get RNDIS going, > what > I suggest is more of a work-around than the solution you are seeking. > > Hope you crack this soon. :)
Thank you for this extra information. allan
