Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-10-13 Thread Benjamin Racher
Looks like the folks over at http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/ are making some progress in this area as well. Check this out. http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-10-12 Thread Bin Zhang
On 9/2/05, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html There is a new gentoo archive mol-0.9.71_pre3 more generic for other distributions. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html#top It works on

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-10-12 Thread Bin Zhang
On 10/12/05, Bin Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/05, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html There is a new gentoo archive mol-0.9.71_pre3 more generic for other distributions.

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-19 Thread Johannes Berg
I'll reply to both these concerns at once: Excellent. Is there some place where this is beeing discussed ? What is the status ? There's an internal discussion private to those that reverse engineer the driver (kept private out of legal concerns). Publicly available information is on

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
ahh tops. good work, keep it up. Dean Yes, I'm part of that project, but I'm using the OSX logs and disassembled driver to cross-check our results. johannes -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:32 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 17:05 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: What we can do is also spy all IOs to the chip and use that to understand how it works, eventually writing a linux driver... Note also that the OS X driver has nice

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I can send you code of a userland SEGV handler that emulates such load/store accesses later, possibly tomorrow, if you are interested, that I wrote for spying some video drivers for sleep issues. Yes please, I'd love to see that made public. Erik --

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-17 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 18:52 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Heh, ok. A trick for spying IOs: give the driver an unmapped area of memory instead of the IOs it expects. You'll trap on all accesses. Then emulate the load/store access (and keep a trace). Yeah, we do something similar. I

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:18 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 18:52 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Heh, ok. A trick for spying IOs: give the driver an unmapped area of memory instead of the IOs it expects. You'll trap on all accesses. Then emulate the load/store

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
everyone is awair that quite alot of documentation is available from a project decompiling (i believe its) a linux based linksys router which uses the same chipset? id hate to see a samba type situation* Dean *a.t. reverse engineered the protocol and built up early samba to later find smb to

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-16 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 17:05 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: What we can do is also spy all IOs to the chip and use that to understand how it works, eventually writing a linux driver... Note also that the OS X driver has nice readable symbols too. So if somebody is really motivated, it

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 17:05 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: What we can do is also spy all IOs to the chip and use that to understand how it works, eventually writing a linux driver... Note also that the OS X driver has nice readable symbols

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-06 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 05:20:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: there already seems to be *heaps* of reversed engineered information about programming its chipset (from decompiled AP firmware). could be off assistance also. Seems like a few weeks ago a project started to write a driver based

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 18:35 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: Hello Otavio, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Matteo, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
there already seems to be *heaps* of reversed engineered information about programming its chipset (from decompiled AP firmware). could be off assistance also. Dean What we can do is also spy all IOs to the chip and use that to understand how it works, eventually writing a linux driver...

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Matteo, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this strange method to use a wireless card and I will post my results! Since when mol has access on the wlan

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-02 Thread Matteo Bigoi - Bigo!
Hello Matteo, See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this strange method to use a wireless card and I will post my results! Since when mol has access on the wlan interface? I know of a discussion

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
Joerg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Matteo, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this strange method to use a wireless card and I will post my

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-02 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Otavio, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Matteo, Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this strange

Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-01 Thread Matteo Bigoi - Bigo!
See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this strange method to use a wireless card and I will post my results! Ciao Bigo! -- E' piu' facile modificare le specifiche per adeguarle al software

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats so wrong in so many ways Dean Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! wrote: See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this strange method to use a wireless card and I will post my results! Ciao Bigo! --

Re: Airport Extreme works on linux!

2005-09-01 Thread Matteo Bigoi - Bigo!
* Fri 02 Sep (09:19), Dean Hamstead scrive: thats so wrong in so many ways Dean Matteo Bigoi - Bigo! wrote: I know and You are right, but it is a try... See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html You have to run mol and use a tunl net device. Tomorrow I will try this