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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Cheney Tang <seerfar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Wessam Baghdadi <wbaghdadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > hi,
>  >
>  >  I've been looking into the out of tree driver for Airgo MIMO wireless
>  >  - the current status is detaied in a post on the linux wireless
>  >  mailing list http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/13784
>  I am reversing engineer the airgo driver on Windows. There are some
>  difficulty, especially
>  no one disasseembly tool can deal with it fully. IDA can disassemble
>  only some parts and others is not available. I try another method to
>  reverse it. From the current partial result obtained, it is very
>  different between Window driver and Jeff'
>  Specifications(http://airgo.wdwconsulting.net/mymoin).
>
>  >
>  >  Airgo is now part of Qualcomm, but surprisingly enough there is a
>  >  claim that one of the airgo engineers had developed linux drivers that
>  >  were held back.
>  Yanbo had download a Airgo driver from internet and share it with me.
>  The driver is for MIPS on Linux 2.4. It composes two files: one is a simple
>  module and another is low level driver. IDA can disassemble the former
>  and do the
>  latter partly. I had try some objdump for MIPS to disassemble it, all failed.
>  I guess the driver is for specific chipset.
>  >

You can download the whole toolchains from the link
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Content_C1%26cid%3D1115416836002&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
IIRIC the type should be WRT54GX

Yanbo




>(http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/airgo-and-asus-team-launch-faster-wired-laptop).
>  >
>  >  He still works at Qualcomm and has a linkedin profile here
>  >  (http://www.linkedin.com/in/cfliu)
>  >
>  >  Is it possible that someone could get in touch with him (or Qualcomm) to see:
>  >
>  >  * if these mythical drivers were indeed developed, the status of the
>  >  drivers and the possibility of Qualcomm releasing the source?
>  >
>  >  * the possibility of releasing the complete specifications of the chipset?
>  >
>  >  thanks,
>  >
>  >  wessam
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