On 11 March 2015 at 00:15, Jonas Gorski <jogo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Pat Erley <pat-lkml@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
