On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:50 -0800, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008, charles zhuang wrote: > > > The Asus dongle will be seen as a mass storage device, it contain > > bunches of windows program, setup.exe, dll, cab file. When I plug in to > > windows, it will install the wimax driver, but failed to install the usb > > driver. From the network connection (windows), I do see a new Ethernet > > connection.\ > > My guess is you see that connection *after* you install the driver, is that > correct? > > > I found this confusing, is there a separate wimax dongle for linux and > > for windows? I thought dongle itself will only contain the wimax mac and > > RF, download a firmware from host to drive it, but looks like not. > > Not necessarily, but it is becoming more common that makers of USB device > implement also an small flash disk (I guess it is cheap enough) so it also > serves to distribute drivers. > > Chances are this dongle won't work in Linux -- unless ASus goes around and > implements the support for it. If the mass-storage device is a "driver cd" thing, then the correct method for "fixing" these devices is to write a small shim driver for libusual that (by default) simply ejects the mass-storage device whenever it's inserted, but allows override of this behavior using a module parameter. See the following Sierra TruInstall patches for how this should happen: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0585e4dfe5670d3ccb77bf86551a657699e9e52e If it's actually a slot for a micro-SD card or something like that, then obviously you'd want to have both the mass-storage device and the modem working at the same time, but the method of doing so may be hardware dependent. Dan
