On 2013/03/03 00:25, Chuck Guzis wrote: > The VID/PID is 066b/20f9, which would lead one to think that the > maker is Linksys--except the PID doesn't appear in any Linksys > registry. So we've got a counterfeit. (Why pay good money to > IF-USB when you can just "borrow" a VID? I've seen the same thing in > cheap USB flash drives. )
There are a whole bunch of USB vendor IDs used in the wild which don't show up in the IF-USB list. It seems more common to just make up a number rather than borrow one though. > At any rate, a stopgap solution for me was to simply add the > following line to the 5.2 USB if_axe.c axe_devs[] structure: > > { { USB_VENDOR_LINKSYS, 0x20f9}, AX772 | AX772B}, // Fake > Linksys HG20f9 I'd be fine with adding the ID but it should be done properly via usbdevs and then use the symbolic name in if_axe.c.