[Prism54-devel] USB CVS snapshot

[Feyd]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:45:37 +0800 (WST)
Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:

> 
> Do you have any process that you would like people to follow to help 
> attempt to decode this stuff?

After some thinking I now think that the USB dongles will not work with the
old firmware:


          *----------*         *----------*
          | NET2280  |         | ISL3890  |            /
 -- USB --|          |-- PCI --|          |-- 802.11 ---
          | 8051 CPU |         | ARM CPU  |            \
          | FIRMWARE |         | FIRMWARE |
          *----------*         *----------*

The firmware in the NET2280 likely expects interaction with the SoftMAC
firmware. On the other hand it should be possible to read the EEPROM and
the NET2280 firmware, which I think will be only few kB large, and learn
the SoftMAC API from that (at least its data transfer part).

Feyd