Probably off topic

[Mike McCormack]

Mark Glassberg wrote:
> I have tried for a number of years to connect my 2Wire HomeportalSW modem/
> router to the usb system on my debian desktop.  The device is recognized as
> using remote ndis, but nothing I've tried, including ndiswrapper, is able to
> drive the device.  The driver on my XP Pro partition works fine.  Would it be
> possible to use ring3k so as to capture the XP Pro driver dialog between the
> device and the operating system?  I assume that this information would greatly
> facilitate the writing of a linux driver.

Hi Mark,

ring3k won't doesn't have any support for user side USB drivers yet, and 
  does not aim to support kernel mode drivers of any type.

I guess you've tried putting the USB manufacturer and product ID into 
Google.

There are software based USB protocol analyzers for Windows that would 
show the protocol data being sent to the modem, which you could use as a 
starting point for writing a driver.  If you ask nicely the manufacturer 
may help you out.  The first step should always be to  make sure that 
nobody else is trying to write a driver for similar hardware yet.

Of course, you're always welcome to work on user side USB support for 
ring3k ;)

thanks,

Mike