urndis

[Julian H. Stacey]

Rolf,
    > And I'm sorry for top posting. My mail app doesn't let me put my reply 
    > below the original message.
    
    Though your 2nd, 3rd & 5th posts broke FreeBSD.Org convention
    	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html
    Your 4th post was _Correct_ 
    	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-April/257695.html
    Stick with method used Tue Apr 22 13:56:06 UTC 2014.

questions@,
Rolf's last post corrected, & my addition appended:

Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> 2014-04-22 20:25 GMT+02:00 Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com>:
> 
> > On 22/04/2014 12:07, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> >
> >> I need to use the USB tethering ability of my Samsung Galaxy S5, and the
> >>> handbook suggests using either cdce or urndis. I've tried cdce with no
> >>> luck,
> >>> and I'm not surprised because windows identifies the phone as RNDIS.
> >>> However,
> >>> I can't find any urndis anywhere on my system. Some pointers would be
> >>> greatly
> >>> appreciated.
> >>>
> >>
> >>  Sincerely,
> >>> Rolf Nielsen
> >>>
> >>
> >> I remember seeing urndis as an option in NetBSD kernel config, but not
> >> FreeBSD.
> >>
> >> Here is the line from NetBSD-current i386 GENERIC kernel config:
> >>
> >> urndis* at uhub? port ?         # Microsoft RNDIS specification
> >>
> >> I am not really familiar with this.
> >>
> >
> > urndis man page says it provides support for Ethernet access over Remote
> > NDIS. Is that what you want? Or do you want to use your phone's 3(/4)g
> > capability?
> >
> > I tether my phone to my laptop in the sense that I use it as a modem for
> > my laptop when I don't have access to wifi or ethernet. I connect the two
> > with a USB cable and use ppp. The laptop is then using the phone's 3g
> > connection.
> >
> > If that's what you want see the handbook:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html
> >
> > Sorry if that's off message.
> >
> > Chris

> I want to use my phone's 3G/4G capability as an ethernet connection. And I
> got that working through urndis. I had an outdated prerelease of 10.0, and
> when I updated the sources and compiled, urndis was installed. When I
> connect my phone and enble USB tethering, the interface ue0 appears.


I was puzzled what urndis was, (what with top posting, mentions
of NetBSD, & no specification of paths in which version of src/
ports/ lkms or whatever) but it sounded useful so searched:

Urndis is not in Any FreeBSD release, including 9.2 or 10.0.
Urndis is just in 9-stable & current.

/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/
/pub/FreeBSD/branches/9.0-stable/src/
	share/man/man4/urndis.4
	sys/dev/usb/net/if_urndis.c
	sys/dev/usb/net/if_urndisreg.h
	sys/modules/usb/urndis

This fails:
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=urndis&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current&arch=default&format=html

This works:
 nroff -man /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/share/man/man4/urndis.4
	The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 9.3
But is misleading, there is not [yet] a 9.3 Release, only 9.2-RELEASE

Cheers,
Julian
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