Well, we have approached multiple vendors and seem to me, at current market there's no easy answer for a ready linux wimax usb dongle. Beceem has a wimax dongle that can partially work on the linux. What I mean partially is that Beceem only produce the chip, same as Intel, so the software they have is mainly for reference only. Beceem dongle works well on a windows platform, on linux, it needs to use a proxy mode to work with a windows supplicant to get it pass thru authentication. I am thinking to port over Beceem's windows code to linux if I have to go thru it. Motorola has a wimax dongle, mostly for the reference check to their base station. It's not commercial available, but I think you may get it for a trial. I was part of their development team for the wimax software before I move to this new job so I knew this well. I think so far Intel only produces the wimax chip but not a complete usb dongle. Intel folks on this board can correct me if anyone knows other fact. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas GIRARD [mailto:ngirard@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:44 AM To: charles zhuang Cc: 'Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky'; 'Andrew Zabolotny'; wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: WiMAX driver crash on load Charles, Many thanks for your answer. Are you aware of any WiMAX USB dongle that would work on Linux and is commercially available ? Nicolas On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:41 AM, charles zhuang wrote: > I bought from Asus. I intend to use it on a linux device, but found > out > this model, WUSB25E2V2, is only for windows. The open source linux > code > can't be used directly on this dongle. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas GIRARD [mailto:ngirard@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:29 AM > To: charles zhuang > Cc: 'Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky'; 'Andrew Zabolotny'; wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: WiMAX driver crash on load > > > Hi all, > > I'm looking to purchase an Intel-based WiMAX USB dongle. Could you > tell me where you bought yours ? Appreciate it. Thanks > > Nicolas > > On Nov 19, 2008, at 3:29 PM, charles zhuang wrote: > >> Andrew, >> I believe I got the same Asus dongle, WUSB25E2V2, as yours. Just >> wondering why on my host (linux, windows) it's showing as a mass >> storage >> device? Do you need to do anything special on your linux host? >> >> Thanks, >> Charles >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wimax-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:wimax-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> ] >> On Behalf Of Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky >> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:52 PM >> To: Andrew Zabolotny; wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: RE: WiMAX driver crash on load >> >>> From: Andrew Zabolotny >>> >>> I'm trying the latest WiMax driver on a Fedora9 x86_64 system. >>> Besides >>> a few warnings during compilation (mismatch sizes in printk() format >>> strings) I get a kernel crash when I insert the WiMax USB dongle >>> into >>> .. >>> >>> Does anybody have a positive experience with the drivers on x86_64 >>> and/or Fedora9 and/or kernel 2.6.26? >> >> I think I know this one. It was my brain not being in proper gear and >> miscalculating an allocation's size, which causes memory overruns in >> drivers/net/wimax/id-table.c. >> >> Would you please try this patch? >> >> --- a/drivers/net/wimax/id-table.c Tue Oct 28 11:06:38 2008 -0700 >> +++ b/drivers/net/wimax/id-table.c Tue Oct 28 14:43:07 2008 -0700 >> @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ int wimax_id_table_add(int id, struct wi >> * we just create one slot -- I sure doubt most machines will >> * have more than one wimax adapter.*/ >> new_size = wimax_id_table_size? 2 * wimax_id_table_size : 1; >> - new_table = krealloc(wimax_id_table, new_size, GFP_ATOMIC); >> + new_table = krealloc(wimax_id_table, new_size * >> sizeof(new_table[0]), >> + GFP_ATOMIC); >> if (unlikely(new_table == NULL)) { >> result = -ENOMEM; >> goto out_unlock; >> >> Next driver release should have all the 64 bit glitches fixed. >> >> On the other hand; currently the user space code is supported only >> in 32 >> bits; on one hand, nobody has had the time to make sure it is 64 bit >> clean. On the other, the binary supplicant is still (sadly) binary >> ia32. >> Yes, we >> keep trying to clean up the red tape, but I doubt we'll be able in >> the >> coming weeks to make the code 64 bit clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wimax mailing list >> wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wimax mailing list >> wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax > >
