On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:35:58PM -0700, Mark McClelland wrote:
> Jim Richardson wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:23:47AM -0700, Dmitri wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 20:58, an unknown sender wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>The ProScope appears to use the Divio Prolink chipset, at least from
> >>>what I can decypher from looking at the debug info from the kernel.
> >>>(With USB verbose debug option)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Is the chipset supported by any existing driver? If not, is there any
> >>active project to write one? You don't want to start coding until you
> >>find that out.
> >>
> >
> >To the best of my knowledge, no. I have made a pretty extensive online
> >search, but that was passive, this is my first active move. The chipset
> >is listed as unsupported, and I can find no evidence of existing
> >projects. Which sucks, as I am way lazy...
> >
>
> From what I've seen, the Prolink chipset is the same thing as the Divio
> NW802 (they both have Product ID 0xd001 in all the reports I've seen).
> There is an experimental NW802 driver at http://nw802.sourceforge.net/
>
> Even if they are different, the code might be useful as a starting point.
>
> If you have Windows, you can spy on the USB traffic with USB Snoopy and
> try to replicate the behavior under Linux. Quite a few drivers have been
> written using that technique. See http://www.wingmanteam.com/usbsnoopy/
>
> --
> Mark McClelland
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>
Thanks a lot! I'll check into this pronto.
--
Jim Richardson
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