Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:35181 "EHLO mail-ie0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957AbbCKFz6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:55:58 -0400 Received: by ieclw3 with SMTP id lw3so5541594iec.2 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:55:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <8BC2636B-D1F0-431C-90F4-1290A4158DC2@gmail.com> <54FF7970.10402@erley.org> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:55:57 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20150311_065602_089266_6356F627) Subject: Re: Developing a new Driver From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Jonas Gorski Cc: Pat Erley , Huseyin , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , brcm80211 development Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11 March 2015 at 00:15, Jonas Gorski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Pat Erley wrote: >> On 03/10/2015 04:42 PM, Huseyin wrote: >>> I want to develop a driver for my usb wireless adapter. The device name is >>> AirTies Air 2410, codes are 0x1eda 0x2410. The company’s other usb wireless >>> adapters (for example, AirTies Air 2310, 0x1eda 0x2310) were using ralink >>> rt2800 driver, but this one doesn’t work with it. >>> >>> I opened up the device’s case, I could only find out that the board was >>> plotech e169497, 6 94v-0. I googled but these seem to be too vague and I >>> cannot go any further with it. I couldn’t find any other text on the board. >> >> Based on their driver, it's a broadcom chip in there: >> >> >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/bcmh43xx.cat >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/bcmihvsrv.dll >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/bcmihvui.dll >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/bcmwlcoi.dll >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/bcmwlhigh6.inf >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/bcmwlhigh6.sys >> inflating: >> AirTiesWirelessUSBAdapterSetup_1.0.1.0/Drivers/Air2410-Air2411/VistaDriver/WdfCoInstaller01005.dll >> >> I don't know what the status of broadcom and usb drivers is though. > > According to wikidevi[1], it uses BCM4323, which is SSB based, quite > old, and will never be supported by brcmfmac, and probably never by > b43 (one would need to reverse engineer the usb protocol used by > broadcom). > > > Jonas > > [1] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AirTies_Air_2410 This is for sure some kind of FullMAC device, it's just not clear if: 1) It's a standard nice FullMAC device 2) Device using another architecture requiring much more code on host I guess it's the second case, you can see info about it on wiki page: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211#unsupported_chips If you think it's fun, you may use my tiny libusb app to read hardware info: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/117924 (if you do, let us know what you got, please) -- Rafał