Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:21:40 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel 6250 and WiMax Message-ID: <973223342.20120410102140@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAFZ_MYLe4AjtMwgzBq22sBYhHkQimfybB%2Ban1xX2JnMiP%2BY6rg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFZ_MYLe4AjtMwgzBq22sBYhHkQimfybB%2Ban1xX2JnMiP%2BY6rg@mail.gmail.com>
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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 :) --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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