Re: PCMCIA and USB 2.3.40-6

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 07:55:37 EST


On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:02:26AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:

> > > 2) USB
> > > Is there a driver for the netgear EA-101 USB->ethernet adapter? (Or any
> > > ethernet adapters for that mater)
> >
> > Did you bother to check www.linux-usb.org? If you had, and had accessed the
> > searchable email archive, you would have found that on Sat, 21 Aug 1999
> > Matthew Dharm <mdharm@one-eyed-alien.net> was asking for a contact at
> > Netgear/Baynetworks because there are no specs for this thing available on
> > the webpage. I am afraid "no specs" means "no driver".
>
> I keep forgetting about this. I wasn't sure since the config help said
> ethernet adapters for acm.

It did say that in earlier versions, but not pre-2.3.40-6. USB CDC can in
theory support ethernet interfaces (perhaps the NetGear complies to
USB CDC?), but not the ACM part of it.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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