From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 07:15:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D74E106566C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:15:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164148FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagv3 with SMTP id v3so3130967lag.13 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:15:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=Dex0IhgUnj8+MhwtWxq9fhNf0BuWUca8O8hnbAaePQQ=; b=cmgo/zORyD/ghuX/gpqCB/l2JaA1hNZgtoEiQQNyezRgeAJfufsweBwJes6OjFioJP SnsQVKSUFUXVXg8ILGHxXJEP74TzlL/Tc2HBF6P+UBuB7AUhtxMrTMO077fJdfeIBpw6 js0y2a1pReRZRdks+/5M1MY2JRz1/WEURm22aaT8xwAzpnPOOsE+lv6LV2NWuu42/ykV 59j2zyiQycmEwnmm2S/Lv02dsHZ0CF+xA21W1dqh+0+Zw+4glK+yKd66gz2IEHUoS0nr Q5/+gilhu+W3u7xGnF6NnWxXkgoCyvokdeILGk8ulSkuzv2aFxOqqSYdBGGWHBFa0DZh T5sw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.104.43 with SMTP id gb11mr26397273lab.8.1333005329890; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.112.38 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:15:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [79.140.39.245] In-Reply-To: <942975b7-aa54-416d-b049-a50563bbf2a7@email.android.com> References: <942975b7-aa54-416d-b049-a50563bbf2a7@email.android.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:15:29 +0200 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schmidt To: "Chris.H" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnVH84n6O9vHFfJXtoGVd6m5CaN9GEvfTDIVVGrfErUKC4oAMurOGIQSjwe2qFAWgdy8XSg Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse engineering; How to... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:15:31 -0000 On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:22, Chris.H wrote: > Greetings, > =A0Over 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 =97 I know, I kno= w, 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 select= ing, and researching these, and other adapters _currently supported_ under = under FreeBSD. That said; the adapter I most recently purchased, is quite n= ice (Cisco(Linksys) AE2500 Wireless-N). > [..] > idVendor =3D 0x13b1 > idProduct =3D 0x003a > bcdDevice =3D 0x0001 > iManufacturer =3D 0x0001 > iProduct =3D 0x0002 > iSerialNumber =3D 0x0003 <000000000001> > bNumConfigurations =3D 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=3Dlinux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.g= it;a=3Dblob_plain;f=3Ddrivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c;hb=3DHE= AD --=20 Bernhard