Reverse engineering a whole driver could take a very long time, even with the proper tools. If it's possible, return the adapter, and buy a new one and verify that the chipset is supported before you buy it. Last time I bought a wireless card I sat in the store looking at the Wireless support list for BSD before buying.
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN I very strongly suggest that you get a card with an Atheros chipset, as those are by far the best supported on BSD. -Brandon On 3/28/2012 4:22 PM, Chris.H wrote: > Greetings, > Over the past year, in an effort to convert my server farm to wireless, I've > purchased some half a dozen USB wireless dongles, at a total cost of ~150.00. > Unfortunately, none of them are (yet) supported — I know, I know, I've > already had this debate with both dev's, & users. On the up-side, I've > devised a resource that will greatly assist would-be adopters in selecting, > and researching these, and other adapters _currently supported_ under under > FreeBSD. That said; the adapter I most recently purchased, is quite nice > (Cisco(Linksys) AE2500 Wireless-N). > Boasts 2.5/5GHz @300Mbps. I figured (wrongly) because Linksys is so well > supported on FreeBSD, that the likelihood of this being supported would be > good. At any rate, given it's not, and because I _do_ have the Window$ > drivers on the install CD. What are the possibilities I can reverse-engineer > the drivers into a FreeBSD loadable module? > I can unpack the setup file to extract the .sys files. While I _could_ > utilize the ndisulator to load them, that's not my goal. Should I unpack the > .sys file, and attempt to decompile/disassemble it? Or attempt to load it, > and dump it from memory? > — hacker/cracker advice _strongly_ desired — > > ############## > #usbconfig -d ugen1.2 dump_device_desc > ugen1.2: <Linksys AE2500 Cisco> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) > pwr=ON > bLength = 0x0012 > bDescriptorType = 0x0001 > bcdUSB = 0x0200 > bDeviceClass = 0x00ff > bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000 > bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000 > bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 > idVendor = 0x13b1 > idProduct = 0x003a > bcdDevice = 0x0001 > iManufacturer = 0x0001 <Cisco> > iProduct = 0x0002 <Linksys AE2500> > iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <000000000001> > bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 > ############## > > P.S. This message was sent from my "smart phone". > Apologies for any (mis)formatting. :-( > > --Chris.H > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
