Fwd: [Prism54-devel] usb devel info

[Rogelio Serrano]

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From: Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:33:36 +0800
Subject: Re: [Prism54-devel] usb devel info
To: Jean-Baptiste Note <jean-baptiste.note at wanadoo.fr>


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:27:24 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Note
<jean-baptiste.note at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> First, a big thank you to Luis for putting things back up !
> Happy new year to all ; may this be the year of softmac support :)
>
> As far as usb is concerned :
>
> First, booting the device should now be correctly handled even after the
> device has already booted. This means that you don't have to
> unplug/replug the device after you've done ifconfig up once. you can
> ifconfig down, ifconfig up at leisure (tested even when the device is
> left in a bas state), without manual intervention.
>
> This, with the addition of an iwpriv command that allows you to send
> what i call "announced packets" (ie, 0f 00 40 00 04 or something
> followed by a real packets, frequency change for instance, or bss
> settings), and a small emacs script to do this from usbsnoop logs, makes
> testing on the protocol really sweet (you browse usbsnoop logs, modify
> packets, then send them to the device from within emacs, then if you've
> stuck the device, simply down/up it).
>
> The iwpriv addition is a kludge though, does anyone knows if libusb
> allows you to "inject" packets into a device that has already be claimed
> by a driver ?
>
> Last thing, discussion with Sebastien lead to the following conclusion :
> the work on usb will not be directly applicable to softmac pci cards,
> but looking at the ndis API, pci snooping should be feasible in software
> only (the ndis API recommends the call of synchronisation functions
> before the driver accesses host/card shared memory). That is, other
> synchronization methods are certainly possible, but if the windows
> driver code is clean, then we have hope -- to be tested soon !
>
> PS: Luis, i don't know if / how much you pay for bandwidth, but i have a
> DSL line with 1,2Mb of upload of which i don't do anything ( i stopped
> using mldonkey for ethical reasons :), i'd be happy to give you root
> access to the box if you want to offload something from prism54.org
>
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Note
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> jean-baptiste.note at wanadoo.fr
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Can I try this with my dlink dwl-g120 now?

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