From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 02:13:22 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 E514D1065673; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7D68FC15; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:13:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcwz17 with SMTP id wz17so5774784pbc.13 for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:13:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gDaIJO0xzqrt4SVqUShz434F9TE1bkjvV48yXp0MhZs=; b=IRPttYjv2XFb7T1yHD1jRKgtR7N3GNlzQHNIw/52bs7Bl7wxZVsvXUKeUxFlXltOOW XJIB9ozLD9tkjVa5FnAte614mAyD3ArSuir6Gw+8rllbvE3CE9m2DSJPhZ97jRBq7pWg VGJDgn6yWFK1Zd34pW0eN6NHakkMg7QuS8VHc/Dww39koia3AVeVEi9/PsVJfgU4NOPi Zf+FKt82Rc2kpcK+hGOoxpMrZOdxSnrYp5j2Z1LNy6K6uQ8eor8fiYJiKVegQIYFHu4/ wnHI8onbLaQ1Z5YUN75iE2gKWxt4T331LVHMaxiSdGxnhK5l70ELwQYWXQEXUaNY0OiH t2UQ== Received: by 10.68.239.233 with SMTP id vv9mr24803105pbc.75.1334024002230; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:13:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bakeneko.local (70-36-223-239.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net. [70.36.223.239]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ng1sm1681079pbc.68.2012.04.09.19.13.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F839730.2020503@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:13:04 -0700 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120326 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PseudoCylon References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=TIS-620 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, Lev Serebryakov , Bernhard Schmidt 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 02:13:23 -0000 On 04/09/12 18:55, PseudoCylon wrote: >> ------------------------------ >> >> 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=utf-8 >> >> Hello, Bernhard. >> You wrote 9 Ð°Ð¿Ñ EURO ÐµÐ»Ñ 2012 г., 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" For what it's worth i2400m was so poor at loading its own firmware that I had to remove it from my gentoo kernel config because it was adding mysterious 40 second delays to boot...probably PEBKAC but not inspiring. I did have it working under 2.6.39, I had a wmx0 device which returned nothing on a scan (no WiMAX transmitters here in northern, northern california I guess). What is interesting about WiMAX: The phy should be able to receive/transmit on a ton of frequencies outside of wifi (I think down to 900mhz) The hardware (transmitter/base stations) are supposedly going for cheaper as LTE takes predominance...I could see uses here for an AWESOME personal LAN :) Since hardware is available, setting up a WISP could be fun, not sure on licensing. Matt