Re: Microsoft MN-510 USB Wi-Fi ?

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

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