net/usb: Ethernet quirks for the LG-VL600 4G modem
This adds a driver for the CDC Ethernet part of this modem. The
device's ID is blacklisted in cdc_ether.c and is white-listed in
this new driver because of the quirks needed to make it useful.
The modem's firmware exposes a CDC ACM port for modem control and a
CDC Ethernet port for network data. The descriptors look fine but
both ports actually are some sort of multiplexers requiring non-
standard headers added/removed from every packet or they get
ignored. All information is based on a usb traffic log from a
Windows machine.
On the Verizon 4G network I've seen speeds up to 1.1MB/s so far with
this driver, a speed-o-meter site reports 16.2Mbps/10.5Mbps.
Userspace scripts are required to talk to the CDC ACM port.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig b/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig
index 6f600cc..3ec22c3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig
@@ -433,4 +433,19 @@
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called sierra_net.
+config USB_VL600
+ tristate "LG VL600 modem dongle"
+ depends on USB_NET_CDCETHER
+ select USB_ACM
+ help
+ Select this if you want to use an LG Electronics 4G/LTE usb modem
+ called VL600. This driver only handles the ethernet
+ interface exposed by the modem firmware. To establish a connection
+ you will first need a userspace program that sends the right
+ command to the modem through its CDC ACM port, and most
+ likely also a DHCP client. See this thread about using the
+ 4G modem from Verizon:
+
+ http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10589647&postcount=17
+
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