On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 07:40:53PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > Hello. > On Sep 6, 10:12pm, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > } Subject: Re: Tips on programming usb devices? > } On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 05:30:25PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > } > hello Iain. Thank you again for your assistance in getting this > } > Novatel modem working. I now have a working driver which, when activated > } > through the modem interface, fires up the ethernet portion of the device > } > and seems to work quite well. I'd like to commit this driver,aand > probably > } > the scripts to activate it, to -current, but I have a few style questions > } > } I don't understand. Why are userspace scripts required to "activate" a > } kernel device driver? > These types of devices seem to be a cross between a packet switched > device and acircuit switched device. When you plug it in, all the devices > show up in the system, but there is no active network connection configured > on the ethernet device to talk to. Rather than configuring the ethernet > through ifconfig commands, one must send traditional AT commands through > the first serial port associated with the device to get it to establish a > connection with the broad band provider. Once the connection with the > provider is established, dhcp can be used to assign an address to the > ethernet interface, and all other networking functions are normal. You can
So what are the scripts - scripts for the existing dhclient/dhcpcd hooks, to dial the modem using chat? Thor
