From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 1 3:42:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FAE37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 03:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9394343E6A for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 03:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 21825 invoked by uid 1031); 1 Oct 2002 10:38:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:38:07 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Brooks Davis Cc: Bob Johnson , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft MN-510 USB Wi-Fi ? Message-ID: <20021001103807.GU26352@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Brooks Davis , Bob Johnson , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200209302259.00470.stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> <20020930214208.A30941@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020930214208.A30941@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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