From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 3:58:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F92B37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:58:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07F743F3F for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9341005F; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1703AA8F; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:58:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E23FB72.1000405@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:58:42 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for USB cable modems? References: <20030114101659.4C5521013A@spork.pantherdragon.org> <15907.62478.455830.386788@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20030114101659.4C5521013A@spork.pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim typed: > >>I have an "RCA cable modem" provided to me by AT&T Broadband and out of the >>same curiosity clinically proven lethal to the average domestic feline, I >>was wondering if I can use the USB interface with FreeBSD. ugen picks up >>the device as, "Thomson Consumer Electronics Thomson RCM245 Cable Modem, rev >>1.00/26.00". The device doesn't seem to be attached by if_aue, if_cue, or >>if_kue. > > > If it only shows up as ugen, then the answer is no. Not without more > software than ships with the kernel, anyway. It might be possible that all is needed is some tweak or bit of information added to one of the existing USB ethernet drivers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message