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