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Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Intel 6250 and WiMax
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Hello, PseudoCylon.
You wrote 10 ?????? 2012 ?., 5:55:06:

>>  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.
  WiMax driver senses "up/down" state and IP is assigned by generic
 base-system dhclinet :)


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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>