Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:15:59 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: "Chris.H" <bsd.chris@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reverse engineering; How to... Message-ID: <CADLo83_We6x7QnZBVCHOeSXcij8YpRWG7RGwu8f4%2B3%2BP8yG9Zw@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 28 Mar 2012 21:23, "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 =97 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). > Boasts 2.5/5GHz @300Mbps. I figured (wrongly) because Linksys is so well supported on FreeBSD, that the likelihood of this being supported would be good. At any rate, given it's not, and because I _do_ have the Window$ drivers on the install CD. What are the possibilities I can reverse-engineer the drivers into a FreeBSD loadable module? > I can unpack the setup file to extract the .sys files. While I _could_ utilize the ndisulator to load them, that's not my goal. Should I unpack the .sys file, and attempt to decompile/disassemble it? Or attempt to load it, and dump it from memory? > =97 hacker/cracker advice _strongly_ desired =97 You've had great answers from a few people on the native driver front, but if you're desperate for a short term fix ndiswrapper has worked miracles for me in the past. Chris
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