Re: unsupported Wifi USB stick for Developer
Greetings On a side note it would be nice to have some tutorial or whatever to help code driver and/or reverse an already written driver for new devices. I did not find anything really helpfull (i googled but maybe i'm dumber then i pretend to be). As for TI they don't even bother answering anyone for documentation as i had for free the famous DWL 550+ and DWL 650+ and i would like to create a driver for them much like the ACX100 (and ACX111 )driver under linux, but i don't want to break any liscence doing so.I know that the cards load up a firmweare from the driver and boot up (eCPU ).But i don't really know where to go from there . Any help is welcome. Best Regards Laurent. On 5/11/06, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:55:06PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote: Hi, I just bought a Wifi USB stick and it doesn't seem to work on OpenBSD. Instead of returning it (39 euros) I'm willing to send this to an OpenBSD developer who wants to make a driver work for this. Not sure how non-blob friendly the maker of this hardware is... Maker: Fritz! WLAN, AVM Model: Fritz!WLAN USB Stick, 802.11g++, 125 Mbit/s, WPA2 (802.11i) This sounds like a Texas Instruments TNETW1450, the marketing for which talks of both 125Mbit rates and g++. How nice of them to try to tie the name for their additional non standard crap to something standardised. When you talk to an access point things are going to run at 54Mbps unless you have an accompanying cheap and nasty access point by TI that imlpements the same vendor specific nonsense. http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/bcg/bcgprodcontent.tsp?templateId=6116navigationId=12471contentId=4043 http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/bcg/tnetw1450_prod_bulletin.pdf TI don't release documentation, and don't respond to requests to allow their firmware to be redistributed. The upshot of all this is that people can avoid products that incorporate a TI chipset by not buying any so called g++ or 125 Mbps gear.
unsupported Wifi USB stick for Developer
Hi, I just bought a Wifi USB stick and it doesn't seem to work on OpenBSD. Instead of returning it (39 euros) I'm willing to send this to an OpenBSD developer who wants to make a driver work for this. Not sure how non-blob friendly the maker of this hardware is... Maker: Fritz! WLAN, AVM Model: Fritz!WLAN USB Stick, 802.11g++, 125 Mbit/s, WPA2 (802.11i) dmesg usbdevs output: -- cd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: FRITZ!, WLAN selfinstall, 1.00 SCSI0 5/cdrom removable umass0: at uhub2 port 8 (addr 2) disconnected cd1 detached scsibus2 detached umass0 detached ugen0 at uhub2 port 8 ugen0: AVM GmbH WLAN USB Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 -- -- Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x), NVIDIA(0x10de), rev 1.00 uhub2 port 1 powered port 2 powered port 3 powered port 4 powered port 5 powered port 6 powered port 7 powered port 8 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, WLAN USB Device(0x6201), AVM GmbH(0x057c), rev 1.00 ugen0 -- Anyhow, serious inquiries only! I'll pay shipping. If anyone from AVM is reading this and would like to provide documentation for this hardware I would welcome your contribution! Sincerely, -peter
Re: unsupported Wifi USB stick for Developer
Ok folks, Marc Balmer is going to take it, he'll take it along to the hackathon and distribute it further on whoever wants it from there. Thanks. -peter
Re: unsupported Wifi USB stick for Developer
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:55:06PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote: Hi, I just bought a Wifi USB stick and it doesn't seem to work on OpenBSD. Instead of returning it (39 euros) I'm willing to send this to an OpenBSD developer who wants to make a driver work for this. Not sure how non-blob friendly the maker of this hardware is... Maker: Fritz! WLAN, AVM Model: Fritz!WLAN USB Stick, 802.11g++, 125 Mbit/s, WPA2 (802.11i) This sounds like a Texas Instruments TNETW1450, the marketing for which talks of both 125Mbit rates and g++. How nice of them to try to tie the name for their additional non standard crap to something standardised. When you talk to an access point things are going to run at 54Mbps unless you have an accompanying cheap and nasty access point by TI that imlpements the same vendor specific nonsense. http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/bcg/bcgprodcontent.tsp?templateId=6116navigationId=12471contentId=4043 http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/bcg/tnetw1450_prod_bulletin.pdf TI don't release documentation, and don't respond to requests to allow their firmware to be redistributed. The upshot of all this is that people can avoid products that incorporate a TI chipset by not buying any so called g++ or 125 Mbps gear.
