Re: [Madwifi-devel] USB

[Benoit P. <ben...@fr...>]

Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Apart from the basic knowledge of the stuctures of "USB networking 
> drivers" you will need information about how to "talk" to the USB 
> sticks. As far as I understood the few statements that have been made in 
> that regard, Atheros USB chipsets behave totally different than the PCI 
> chips. So without proper information about that part, writing a working 
> driver would probably reduce to reverse engineer existing (Windows) drivers.

You can also use a USB sniffer under Windows to capture the USB packets 
sent/received by the device and then decode them to understand them. 
That is reverse engineering, but that could help. I wrote one some years 
ago (available at : http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/) that i 
use for a USB DSL modem.

But all in all, having the manufacturer documentation and support is the 
best of course. Reverse engineering is just redoing for free twice the 
work done by skills engineers paid for that.

Best regards,
Benoit