Brain Unplugged
A few days work, and what do I have to show for it? Only this:
Why is it showing as unplugged? I’ve no idea — I’m going to test it out on Ubuntu and use the dmesg tool to see if I can discover what’s going on. Definite progress has been made however, as there’s quite a bit going on behind the scenes. I can’t wait to get all the RNDIS wrapping completed so I can then start attacking the Ethernet frames. My goal for the moment is a pingable device (hard enough in itself) but eventually I want to have a micro HTTP server running on this thing. Lots of layers between me and that goal – Ethernet, TCP, IP, HTTP – but by taking it one step at a time it should be perfectly possible for myself to manage.
To some more good news; I’m very interested in the creations over at www.digitalsurveyinstruments.com, not because I want to become a geologist or surveyer, but because the devices are running – you guessed it! – MyUSB. I’ve had a ball talking to the engineer behind the products, discussing various ways to acomplish certain tasks, and ranting when it turns out that Windows doesn’t support what we want.
UPDATE: Found the source of the “Network Cable Unplugged” problem: RNDIS_STATUS_MEDIA_CONNECT isn’t the same as RNDIS_MEDIA_STATE_CONNECTED. It’s Ethernet time, baby!
