Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-30 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:20:27AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:33:17PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote: > > > Reverse engineering a whole driver could take a very long time, even with > > > the

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-29 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:20:27AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:33:17PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote: > > 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

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-29 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 29 March 2012 18:15:59 Chris Rees wrote: > On 28 Mar 2012 21:23, "Chris.H" wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > 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 t

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 Mar 2012 21:23, "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 thi

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-29 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:33:17PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote: > 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

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-29 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:22, 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 > a

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, If there's a linux/netbsd/openbsd driver then you could work with us to port them. We in the wireless stack hacker group are sorely lacking developers working on the chipsets that are out there. OpenBSD tends to have a bunch of wireless drivers that Damien has either ported or reimplemented

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-28 Thread Brandon Falk
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

Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-28 Thread Chris.H
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 u