FreeBSD 8.1, if_cdce and an OpenMoko phone

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Sunday 19 September 2010 01:10:27 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Under FreeBSD 7.3-stable, I could connect my Neo FreeRunner (Openmoko
> phone) via usb cable to my workstation, kldload if_cdce and get an
> ethernet interface up.
> Now running FreeBSD 8.1-release on said workstation:
> root at kg-work2# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-work2.kg4.no 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19
> 02:55:53 UTC 2010    
> root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> and the FreeRunner is detected like this:
> root at kg-work2#  usbconfig
> ugen0.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps)
> pwr=ON ugen1.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen2.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST
> spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen3.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus3, cfg=0
> md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON ugen2.2: <RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget Linux
> 2.6.29-rc3-v21 with s3c2410_udc> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps) pwr=ON
> 
> and cdce(4) is already in the GENERIC kernel. From /var/log/messages:
> Sep 19 00:06:49 kg-work2 root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1457 product
> 0x5122 bus uhub2 Sep 19 00:06:49 kg-work2 kernel: ugen2.2: <Linux
> 2.6.29-rc3-v21 with s3c2410_udc> at usbus2 Sep 19 00:12:47 kg-work2
> kernel: interface cdce.1 already present in the KLD 'kernel'!
> 
> The problem is of course that therer isn't an ethernet interface for this
> usb device: root at kg-work2# ifconfig
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> 	options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
> 	ether 00:08:74:b3:5e:c8
> 	inet 10.1.150.16 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.1.255.255
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> 	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> 	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> 	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> 	nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> 
> So, what magic tricks do I need to perform to get this working under 8.1?
> 
> References:
> 1) http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner

Hi,

You need to:

usbconfig -d X.Y set_config 1

To get it working.

--HPS