Bug#627098: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: rndis_host fails to recognize usb device

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:16:31PM -0400, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-31
> Severity: normal
> 
> I'm running squeeze and I have a usb communication device that my 2.6.32-5-686
> kernel doesn't recognize.  The device, called a PC Port, is manufactured by
> 2Wire, which is now part of Pace Plc.  It functions as an interface to a phone
> line based network using HomePNA technology.  I use a 2Wire modem/router which
> is also a usb device running HomePNA, and it is recognized by rndis_host as an
> eth device, but my PC Port is not.
[...]

Where do you find these things, Mark? ;-)

The log you attached shows this device being discovered, but doesn't
show rndis_host doing anything with it.  Does any driver seem to
recognise the device at all?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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