Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:38:07 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Bob Johnson <stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft MN-510 USB Wi-Fi ? Message-ID: <20021001103807.GU26352@spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20020930214208.A30941@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200209302259.00470.stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> <20020930214208.A30941@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:42:08PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:59:00PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > It definatly won't work with 4.6.2. There's no support for USB wireless > adaptors at this point. I think there are linux drivers for at least > one type, but I don't know if anyone is working on a port of them. If anyone's planning on reverse engineering these things, typically the drivers themselves are NDIS5 ones, not USB ones. The NDIS5 driver then acts as a client calling into USBD. A number of people have taken apart these USB wireless adapters and found them to contain PCMCIA devices with a bridge chip of some kind. If that's the case, and the bridge chip forwards commands in much the same way as the USB-ATA bridges in existence, then writing an additional layer for if_wi to talk via the bridge might be straightforward once the packet format is known. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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