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On 06:55 Wed 11 Mar , Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 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


Hi,

Here's what I got using your app:

[id]      chip: 4322
[id]   chiprev: 0001

Huseyin Olgac
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