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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:58:42 -0800
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support for USB cable modems?
Message-ID:  <3E23FB72.1000405@pantherdragon.org>
References:  <20030114101659.4C5521013A@spork.pantherdragon.org> <15907.62478.455830.386788@guru.mired.org>

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Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20030114101659.4C5521013A@spork.pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> 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.


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