> Well, interestingly enough, I have worked on the zyd driver, > as well as looking at the zdwlan driver which was developed > on Solaris 9/Sparc. > > An interesting concept that the original author of zdwlan > used was to extract the firmware out of the Windows driver > and stick it in a reserved space in the zdwlan driver to > make sure that the firmware got loaded. It works. I used > it with another one of my zydas based devices, and was > able to make some progress (I got it scanning, acquiring > a DHCP address to a WEP'd AP, but it didn't pass packets). > > Perhaps this sort of strategy could be used with > webcams?
Possibly; I know that the Ricoh webcam's that come bundled with HP laptops (along with others) do the same thing. Instead of having the firmware in the camera, it is loaded manually - in terms of costs; less chips equals less dollars and over several million units, its money saved. Matthew
