USB link cable?

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 06:57:57PM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> Yevmenkin, Maksim wrote:
> 
> >this will create virtual ng0 network interface, which is different from 
> >virtual
> >*ethernet* interface. if you need virtual *ethernet* interface you will 
> >need
> >to use ng_eiface(4) module instead of ng_iface(4), i.e.
> > 
> ># ngctl mkpeer udbp0: eiface data ether
> > 
> >this will create virtual ngethX *ethernet* interface.
> 
> Right now my USB link cable stopped to work at all on the
> BSD side. I mean it stopped to work *permanently*. Neither
> BSD Linux nor Windwos XP recon it any more as a proper USB
> device. However they still detect that there is something
> there.

Detecting is just a 1,5k Ohm resistor - no active electonic required for
that.

> **** READ - the hardware BROKE DOWN PERMANENTLY ****
> 
> Excellent isn't it?

I really doubt that the udbp driver is guilty of this.
An USB driver has no chance to break a device permanently by accident
unless it has a very broken design.

What does FreeBSD tell you now on probing the device?

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