Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:15:29 +0200 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> To: "Chris.H" <bsd.chris@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse engineering; How to... Message-ID: <CAAgh0_Zue=4bmoun7GbA_8rihH1nhWSpUUzMBw-DgyhUTR2nRQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <942975b7-aa54-416d-b049-a50563bbf2a7@email.android.com> References: <942975b7-aa54-416d-b049-a50563bbf2a7@email.android.com>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:22, Chris.H <bsd.chris@yahoo.com> wrote: > Greetings, > Over the past year, in an effort to convert my server farm to wireless, I've purchased some half a dozen USB wireless dongles, at a total cost of ~150.00. Unfortunately, none of them are (yet) supported — I know, I know, I've already had this debate with both dev's, & users. On the up-side, I've devised a resource that will greatly assist would-be adopters in selecting, and researching these, and other adapters _currently supported_ under under FreeBSD. That said; the adapter I most recently purchased, is quite nice (Cisco(Linksys) AE2500 Wireless-N). > [..] > idVendor = 0x13b1 > idProduct = 0x003a > bcdDevice = 0x0001 > iManufacturer = 0x0001 <Cisco> > iProduct = 0x0002 <Linksys AE2500> > iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <000000000001> > bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 Seems to be Broadcom based, BCM43236[1]. I'm afraid, you won't have much fun which that thing.. though, afaik Linux' brcm80211[2] supports it. If you want to port that driver, by all means, go for it! The license looks pretty useful at least. [1] http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_AE2500 [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c;hb=HEAD -- Bernhard
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