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.

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