usb/108097: [usbgen] [patch] ADMtek 851X USB-to-LAN adapter

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Friday 19 January 2007 14:50, Volker wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR usb/108097; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Volker <volker at vwsoft.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,  numisemis at yahoo.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: usb/108097: [usbgen] [patch] ADMtek 851X USB-to-LAN adapter
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:47:57 +0100
>
>  > +product ADMTEK PEGASUSII_3      0x8515  AN8515 Ethernet
>
>  Simun: Did you try your patch and did you get if_aue to work with
>  that NIC?
>
>  I've seen a similar patch for NetBSD, but yesterday I tried a
>  similar NIC (vid 0x0a46, pid 0x8515) and after patching if_aue for
>  this vid/pid, the driver fails to initialize with MII read timeout
>  problems.
>
>  If it's really an ADMtek 8515 chipset, it will be detected but it
>  might not work or adapters using the same chip differ in behavior.
>
>  As I've googled for some hours I figured out the same problems have
>  been experienced by some Linux users and a patch for initialising
>  the card and getting the MAC address was needed.
>
>  The datasheet for this chip (and other ADMtek chips) is available at
>  http://www.infineon.com. The original website of admtek is obsolete
>  (even finding the datasheet has been difficult).

Could you get the revision number for this chip. For example what does 
"usbdevs -v" output?

PS: I have added support for the newer AMDtek 8513 to my new USB stack. You 
maybe want to try that one first.

http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/sources/src/sys/dev/usb/if_aue.c

Look for 0x0201

--HPS