Adding RTL8153 support to rue(4) (actually cdce(4)) USB to Ethernet driver [SOLVED]

[Kevin Lo]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:34:31PM -0700, David Horwitt wrote:
> 
> On 10/25/16 01:50, Kevin Lo wrote:
> > Been busy at work, sorry for the late reply.  I have a patch that adds 
> > preliminary support for the RTL8153 to ure(4), available at:
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/ure.diff
> > 
> > Performance is not good, it could be improved later.
> > Can you please give it a try and let me know?  Thanks.
> >
> 
> Congratulations, it seems to basically work (I didn't test it rigorously, just dhclient and a few pings). However,
> I tested while wireshark was running; network traffic ceased when wireshark stopped. It appears that the native cfg
> may need promiscuous mode like cdce does.
> 
> I spent many hours trying to merge the linux r8152.c code into if_ure.c, and was overwhelmed by all the magic
> numbers and lack of associated documentation. I tip my hat to you...

Thanks for the testing and feedback!  The revised patch [1] should fix your
problem, thanks

[1] https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/ure.diff

> Cheers,
> DH

	Kevin