NAME

ncm — USB Network Control Model driver

SYNOPSIS

ncm* at uhub? port ?

DESCRIPTION

The ncm driver provides support for USB Network Control Model devices, often appearing as hotspot USB tethering in Android devices on devices such as the following:

• Google Pixel 8

SEE ALSO

arp(4), intro(4), netintro(4), usb(4), usbnet(4), ifconfig.if(5), ifconfig(8)

Universal Serial Bus Class Communications Class Subclass Specification for Network Control Model Devices, https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/NCM10_012011.zip.

HISTORY

The ncm device driver first appeared in NetBSD 11.0.

AUTHORS

The ncm driver was written by Maya Rashish <maya@netbsd.org> based on the cdce(4) driver written by Craig Boston <craig@tobuj.gank.org>.