RFC: raw-ip-only driver - actually working code!

Markus Gothe nietzsche at lysator.liu.se
Thu Jun 25 08:27:30 PDT 2015


Sorry for the previous mail with the broken attachment. Here is the correct one.

Okey here is my draft for the driver. Verified to be working with Netgear 770S.

Any thoughts?

//M

Den 24 jun 2015 23:10 skrev Markus Gothe <nietzsche at lysator.liu.se>:
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> And yes it would esentially be qmi_wwan.c with rx- and tx-fixups for ethernet headers ;-).
>
> //M
>
> Den 24 jun 2015 23:07 skrev Markus Gothe <nietzsche at lysator.liu.se>:
> >
> > Given the success Ive had with MBIM (and briding etc.) I was thinking for USB-tethering devices like the Sprint / Netgear 770S (which behaves like the 341U) that have unique PIDs wouldnt it make sense to have a "raw-ip only driver"? It is not likely you want to bridge a MiFi. And if you want then one can give it some effort.
> >
> > This is based upon the assumptions of uniq PIDs but one could also do some probing of the device and unbind/rebind it to the correct driver knowing its behaviour.
> >
> > This should be straight forward to implement. I might give it a try during weekend.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > //M
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