On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:42 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:08:28 +0100 > > > Some RNDIS devices don't respond on the control channel until polled > > on the status channel. In particular, this was reported to be the > > case for the 2Wire HomePortal 1000SW. > > > > This is roughly based on a patch by John Carr > > which is reported to be needed for use with some Windows Mobile devices > > and which is currently applied by Mandriva. > > > > Reported-by: Mark Glassberg > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings > > Tested-by: Mark Glassberg > > --- > > Note that this change hasn't yet been tested with any other RNDIS > > devices. John, can you confirm whether this also handles the WinMob > > devices? > > Still waiting for this to get tested. Is there really nobody in the > world with RNDIS devices who can test this patch? If so, maybe that's > a good reason to not apply it :-)))) This has been in Debian unstable since 1 May and I haven't seen any fall-out yet. However I acknowledge that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.