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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) open-source driver question Post 302214684 by sjalex on Monday 14th of July 2008 04:16:57 PM

07-14-2008

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open-source driver question

Hi, I'm a linux guy and have used netbsd, openbsd, freebsd etc in the past but never tangled with the kernel or drivers outside of Linux.

My mother has fried her ethernet port on her iMac (G4 I think); I recently sent her a silicom USB U2E (usb 2 ethernet) dongle which is evidently not recognized by OS-X. This device works with most linux distros out of the box, and uses the "kaweth" driver which is available on sourceforge. The driver page says it's POSIX compliant which makes me hopeful but I don't know how to proceed.

I'm comfortable with building and installing modules, or even rebuilding the kernel if that's necessary, but I don't know where to start with MacOS. Could someone point me to a resource, or if this driver is already implemented and just needs the VID/PID added to a config file somewhere (or some other trivial step), point me to that?

Thanks for your help.

Stephen

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uark

UARK(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   UARK(4)

NAME

     uark -- Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based USB serial adapter

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device uark
	   device ucom

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   uark_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The uark driver supports Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based serial adapters.

HARDWARE

     The uark driver supports the following adapters:

     o	 HL USB-RS232
     o	 HugePine USB-UART
     o	 KQ-U8A Data Cable
     o	 Skymaster USB to RS232

SEE ALSO

     tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4)

HISTORY

     The uark device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.0.  The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS

     The uark driver was written by Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>.

CAVEATS

     Setting hardware flow control is not currently supported.	It is not yet known how to ask the hardware to send a break.

     Arkmicro Technologies do not reply to requests of documentation for their products.

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