On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:07:37AM +0200, Indan Zupancic wrote: > On Tue, April 8, 2008 15:59, John W. Linville wrote: > > Also lurking out there is support for the USB-based Prism2 devices. > > The linux-wlan project had support for these, but the kernel.org > > kernels do not. Hardware can be a bit hard to find... > > I know someone with such a card, and have used it myself for a while. > I also looked into porting it to the hostap driver, but it seemed to be > more work than I had time to spend on it. > > Quoting the HFA3842B datasheet: > > "The USB host port interface uses Microsoft's Remote NDIS > protocol to communicate with the network software on the > host computer." The datasheets I found for that don't seem to have that quote...? > The work involved seems to adapt hostap such that the communication > is abstracted slightly more, making it easy to add USB support. Main > work is figuring out how the USB communication differs from the PCI > one, which boils down to learning how RNDIS works. > > To sum up, I've no time to do it, but can probably help with testing, > or give small hints here and there (e.g. card is very sensitive for > which firmware is used, try the default, already loaded one first). Well, the good news is that RNDIS wireless devices will be supported in 2.6.26 via the new rndis_wlan driver. :-) However, I don't think that all Prism2 USB devices are RNDIS. John -- John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
