From Bugzilla Helper: Description of problem: http://www.zauruszone.com/files/usbdnet-patch.gz This is a completely self contained kernel module for 2.4.17+ that adds support for "usbdnet". This is required to connect with the newly released Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (linux based) handheld. The kernel module is used sucessfully by hundreds of of Zaurus owners, and as it impacts only three files, I believe it is safe (even for late inclusion): drivers/usb/Config.in drivers/usb/Makefile drivers/usb/usbdnet.c <-- The driver itself I believe you will get lots of requests for this, as the Zaurus SL-5500 looks to be *very* popular. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A The web forums and mailing lists are full of people who have problems manually patching their kernel. By adding this module, it is reasonable to assume that you'll be saving Red Hat tech support from getting lots of call from people, who don't have the proper skills and end up mucking their kernel/kernel configuration up. Actual Results: N/A Expected Results: N/A Additional info: The instructions people currently use: http://www.zauruszone.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=3caa0d576116ffff;act=ST;f=14;t=10
I own a Zaurus SL-5500 (it arrived yesterday). This would be very helpful to me personally. It is great product!
*** Bug 62831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 62592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Errata material, maybe.
Created attachment 59004 [details] Patch itself, from Spot's e-mail
Love to see this in the next kernel released for Red Hat 8.0! :) /Richard
Pavel Machek posted a patch to add the Zaurus support to usbnet, so far for 2.5 only. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=103497713029447&w=2
Uhh ... me too, me too. Is there a better way to make Redhat aware of user demand for a feature? Voting for features or somesuch?
Another location of patches is: http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/patches/ They probably apply in a cleaner fashion.
Dax, I saw your review at gurulabs. Upstream to the rescue. Closing.
Mr. Zaitcev, can you give just a little bit more detail, please? Are you suggesting that this is fixed in RH9? I assume you are referring to the article at http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html ... I don't see where that article mentions this problem specifically.
Dax commented it out of the review an hour ago, perhaps something broke. No e-mail or other communication from him so far. Anyhow, usbdnet is not going in. Pavel changed usbnet, but apparently that one is not in either. David-B is fixing CDCEther to support Zaurus framing, I saw a new 2.5 changeset today. I am not exactly sure what the status is. Should work.
Well, I did have mention in the review briefly, then I noticed on closer inspection that it doesn't work. :( dmesg output: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 17 CDCEther.c: Found Header descriptor, CDC version 110. CDCEther.c: Imperfect filtering support - need sw hashing CDCEther.c: Can't use SetEthernetMulticastFilters request CDCEther.c: detected BULK OUT packets of size 64 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2 CDCEther.c: eth2: Sharp SL Series CDCEther.c: eth2: 40:00:02:00:00:01 When I try to trasmit any traffic, I get: eth1: Undersized frame received (0 bytes) eth1: Undersized frame received (0 bytes) eth1: Undersized frame received (0 bytes) So, no. It isn't working yet.
Does Fedora work?
It does work with a little bit of hotplug configuration changes, this can be closed.