Re: Getting device 0fe6:9700 Kontron to work with NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 13:27 +0200, Perazim wrote:
> Update: Turns out that this device was repacked by manufacturer without
> documenting NIC chip change. The correct driver is qf9700 which is not
> in the standard kernel and I found the source for on the internet and
> built against my kernel. Once done and installed in modules, I can
> modprobe this and device is brought up and NM recognizes it.
> 
> Now I need to figure out how to get this to happen automatically when
> the device is plugged.

It's a kernel problem.  If it's the same USB ID as the old device with
the old chip, then you'll need to talk to various kernel mailing lists
(linux-usb probably, or netdev) to see how to figure this out.  The
problem is that drivers mostly use USB IDs for autoloading, and if this
device has the same USB IDs then it'll conflict with the old driver.
You can't just add the same USB ID to two different drivers, there's
more coordination that needs to happen.  Unfortunately I don't know what
the coordination is off the top of my head :(

Dan

> Perazim
> 
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 17:08 +0200, Perazim wrote:
> > Getting device 0fe6:9700 Kontron to work with NM:
> > 
> > This is a USB 10/100BT NIC plugged to a Fedora 14 system.
> > 
> > When plugged, I see:
> > 
> > dmesg:
> > [ 2659.193039] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> > address 4
> > [ 2659.338064] usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0fe6,
> > idProduct=9700
> > [ 2659.338069] usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2,
> > SerialNumber=0
> > [ 2659.338073] usb 5-1: Product: USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adaptor
> > [root@travelmate yossi]# 
> > 
> > No module is loaded that I see. I THINK the correct module is dm9601
> > which is present in my modules directory. I can do a modprobe dm9601 and
> > it is loaded but again nothing else happens.
> > 
> > How do I get NM to recognize and use this device?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Perazim
> > 
> > 
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