net/usb: Ethernet quirks for the LG-VL600 4G modem

This adds a driver for the CDC Ethernet part of this modem.  The
device's ID is blacklisted in cdc_ether.c and is white-listed in
this new driver because of the quirks needed to make it useful.
The modem's firmware exposes a CDC ACM port for modem control and a
CDC Ethernet port for network data.  The descriptors look fine but
both ports actually are some sort of multiplexers requiring non-
standard headers added/removed from every packet or they get
ignored.  All information is based on a usb traffic log from a
Windows machine.

On the Verizon 4G network I've seen speeds up to 1.1MB/s so far with
this driver, a speed-o-meter site reports 16.2Mbps/10.5Mbps.
Userspace scripts are required to talk to the CDC ACM port.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Andrzej Zaborowski
2011-03-28 12:56:33 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d005a09edf
commit 7a635ea989
6 changed files with 387 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -433,4 +433,19 @@ config USB_SIERRA_NET
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called sierra_net.
config USB_VL600
tristate "LG VL600 modem dongle"
depends on USB_NET_CDCETHER
select USB_ACM
help
Select this if you want to use an LG Electronics 4G/LTE usb modem
called VL600. This driver only handles the ethernet
interface exposed by the modem firmware. To establish a connection
you will first need a userspace program that sends the right
command to the modem through its CDC ACM port, and most
likely also a DHCP client. See this thread about using the
4G modem from Verizon:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10589647&postcount=17
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