From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 01:55:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C84106564A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:55:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca) Received: from nm23-vm1.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm23-vm1.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC3C28FC1A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.52] by nm23.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Apr 2012 01:55:07 -0000 Received: from [98.138.84.34] by tm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Apr 2012 01:55:07 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Apr 2012 01:55:07 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1334022907; bh=RmO/x/KrAKHfSAU4rMCuXIJO3Urvy9QCGYif3tOPWZM=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Received:MIME-Version:Received:Received:Date:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4L3DhI9QRoajFFe889lWr/NrPWQrNY1mtY0HCk463INAnHk7Yier+1ahHtHD8rLA7Vr8eRUwf9BPa4a3c1ZpTFukbzFsT9hxLWRtoFJFVsm4quZv63Va5xVIN5CB7tT0BxGaOh0/Wt0dJb5EqIeeDW7/vFoACqh9wqfVn8PSjkc= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 565279.37179.bm@smtp102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: zvNRKFMVM1mSy9t9Qp1NSYCAMPw98KzPUqAe5fN1ZuSZT_L 9n3m8gatntqbyBSY4A5294EgUiv.EW.MU8PPcpBW7rZsmDV47yh4sX50iTBu WJ1zdCtGFVSWZQjUoZZSsOLLJy7hOtJOVAdlJ9yZX4hPTPAagFoyZeSkF9ks WscTPTtQc4RfP6mWyVdLH6ibhQjRFUR5KWTIOEVr3bSoj.Hv3.ypPNijeJN8 6lCMgkKsvNTaCYZydZXNoCjf7DRGcJX6W2ko.SqNxDAL01FXadIJIviG044U vT.3iIUzDTqOQbAtUxBL6smMUhMKbkp2zSc2uR2r7sRSmgPWXnCvMVe_bMv7 HlCdksMR7KwLruEGSILQ9_5jz1mUnhpX27c9oYz9GAbJSCYWqA5j2.S3drJN pcAykAdIdZOKwtKaubqrC3z6j2Um6TQk- X-Yahoo-SMTP: Xr6qjFWswBAEmd20sAvB4Q3keqXvXsIH9TjJ Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (moonlightakkiy@209.85.214.182 with plain) by smtp102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 09 Apr 2012 18:55:07 -0700 PDT Received: by obbwc18 with SMTP id wc18so8675377obb.13 for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.18.197 with SMTP id y5mr13289022oed.58.1334022906941; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.208.39 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:55:06 -0600 Message-ID: From: PseudoCylon To: Lev Serebryakov , Bernhard Schmidt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=TIS-620 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 6250 and WiMax X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:55:09 -0000 > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:59:43 +0400 > From: Lev Serebryakov > Subject: Re: Intel 6250 and WiMax > To: Bernhard Schmidt > Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <992091892.20120409125943@serebryakov.spb.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dutf-8 > > Hello, Bernhard. > You wrote 9 =D0=B0=D0=BF=D1 EURO =D0=B5=D0=BB=D1 2012 =D0=B3., 12:52:01: > >>> Here are driver for Samsung WiMax USB dongle, and it works as-is, >>> without any WiMax stack, as simple ethernet NIC. But, maybe, non-usb >>> devices are other story, I don't know. >> Guess it depends on the device driver, it might contain its own >> stack. > It looks like Samsung USB stick contains stack in firmware, because > driver is VERY simple and has size of several KILOBYTES of C code, > really, only couple of USB commands like "set SSID", "get signal > strength", "send frame" and "poll for received frame", and it's all. > It wasn't particularly WiMax, but when I worked on HSPA+ device, usie(4) it worked like that, set up usb xfers and throw ethernet packets at the device, that was it. Probably, one simple generic stack would work for most of them if needed. The problem I had was there is no mechanism to pass device info (i.e link state up/down, signal strength, IP addresses) to other part of the system. I thought about adding it, but I haven't because there isn't lots of demand. AK