Re: [Gumstix-users] re: OS X users using the scudderfish branch

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Karl von Muller wrote:

> Cool thanks, shall try this.
>
> Windows uses RNDIS doesnt it..so that will stop that? Don't use it
> over windows anyway so not too worried.

Yup -- RNDIS is one of those Microsoft "The way everyone else does  
this is just not good enough for us, so we'll roll our own entirely  
secret way of doing the exact same thing" jobs.  CDC Ethernet wasn't  
good enough for Microsoft, so they created RNDIS.

Without RNDIS, you won't be able to use the gumstix in a windows  
usbnet setup.  With it, you can kind of almost sort of use it in some  
other cases, if the driver is smart enough to just ignore the RNDIS  
configuration and skip to the CDC Ethernet one it can deal with.   
Actually, I think linux now has some basic RNDIS client support that  
I think I noticed tagged as "EXPERIMENTAL" last time I was compiling  
a kernel on my server.

C