Subject: Re: USB modems, USB drives and APM + USB support on 1.4
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@cyberstation.ca>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/08/1999 17:43:30
Alicia da Conceicao wrote:

>  There are many new USB modems (which are very tiny and self powered), and
>  USB drives (like the 200 MB zip drives) which are out now.  If I am not
>  mistaken, NetBSD still does not have any support for these yet.  Is anyone

>  working on adding these USB devices to NetBSD?

The FreeBSD are working on a ZIP driver, if the modems follow the specs they
should
be fairly easy to handle.  Volounteers welcome.

>  Also, has anyone been able to get USB to coexist with APM, so that we
>  can use USB devices after waking up our laptops from sleep-mode, without
>  rebooting?

That will take some coding...  I hope to have time to spare in June.


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        -- Lennart