[Prism54-devel] prism54-usb firmware loading

[Helmar Spangenberg]

Am Sonntag, 6. Juni 2004 23:02 schrieb Mark Reiche:
> Hello Helmar,
>
> I have some questions regarding your post about those Medion USB-Dongles:
>
>  From the patched-in USB-ID I guess you also own the Medion MD40900
> (XG-701A).

Exactly ;-)

> What firmware did you take? I extracted it from the windows 
> driver, using the guide somewhere linked in this list... It has version
> 2.4.3.0 and is only 28316Bytes long.

No, I didn't. For the time being I took the firmware which was distributed 
from prism54.org. To my opinion, it should not make too much difference, but 
since you already have extracted the newer version - I would be very happy to 
get hands on it ;-).

>
> Did you finally succeed? I can load the driver/firmware and even ifup
> the eth-device, but I get no data over it. Also, the wireless-tools
> (iwconfig, iwlist, ...)  do not find the required functionality...

Hm ;-). Actually, the driver is not yet capable of doing any more than 
creating an interface and downloading the software. Still, there is quite a 
lot of work to be done to port the parts of the server which operates on the 
pci/cardbus interface to USB.
I intend to do a port of the rest of the functions belonging to the 
pci/cardbus interface during the next weeks. Unfortunately, in real life I am 
working on an urgent project, too, thus my time is rather limited :-(((

BTW - has anybody worked on the USB driver in the last days? I would be glad 
if we could concentrate our efforts to get that thing running. No work should 
be done twice.... ;-)
>
> Thank you for the work already done.

Those merits should go to Feyd, as far as I know he actually wrote the USB 
driver. My part was only to have an idea about what let the driver crash ;-)

Helmar