From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PfKdk-0006tv-W4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:07:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFA52E086C for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.stuge.se (foo.stuge.se [213.88.146.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21D2BE08E6 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24215 invoked by uid 501); 18 Jan 2011 22:30:33 -0000 Message-ID: <20110118223033.24214.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:30:33 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Marvell switch 6131 and the DSA driver Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 38bb41736280dd2dd57745957e8090c7 Kfir Lavi wrote: > > do you have a manual for the board? what does it say about what > > you can do with the usb link? > > We have configured this board via USB using windows, so I guess I > should be able to use the board over USB. You should be able to also configure the board over USB using Linux of course. But if Windows with vendor software did not expose a networking interface for the switch then Linux probably also can not. I find it very likely that the USB interface is only for configuration and not actual network packets. It is definately possible to have USB network interfaces, but that is not something that would be built-in to a switch. Can you look at the board and identify some chips? If not, maybe you can post a high-resolution photo where chip markings are visible? Then people with good experience from the chips could help you identify what chips are being used, and make some informed guesses about capabilities of the different interfaces. (Assuming that there is no information about what you can and can not do in documentation or otherwise available from the vendor, in which case that would of course be a much more efficient source of information. :) //Peter