usb dongle enumerate as mass storage device

[Inaky Perez-Gonzalez]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008, charles zhuang wrote:

> The Asus dongle will be seen as a mass storage device, it contain
> bunches of windows program, setup.exe, dll, cab file. When I plug in to
> windows, it will install the wimax driver, but failed to install the usb
> driver. From the network connection (windows), I do see a new Ethernet
> connection.\

My guess is you see that connection *after* you install the driver, is that 
correct?

> I found this confusing, is there a separate wimax dongle for linux and
> for windows? I thought dongle itself will only contain the wimax mac and
> RF, download a firmware from host to drive it, but looks like not.

Not necessarily, but it is becoming more common that makers of USB device 
implement also an small flash disk (I guess it is cheap enough) so it also 
serves to distribute drivers.

Chances are this dongle won't work in Linux -- unless ASus goes around and 
implements the support for it.

> Does intel has a separate dongle for linux?

Not that I know.

> Regarding the lsusb, here's the section for asus.
> ...
>       bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage 
>       bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
>       bInterfaceProtocol     80 Bulk (Zip)

Yep, truly a disk :)


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Inaky