Re: Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 05:49:44PM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Hello! I'm strugling to find any documentation for RTL8188* wireless devices (including those already supported in urtwn driver). I wrote to Realtek, but no responce followed. My problem is that I have a MiniPCI

Re: Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Stefan Sperling said: I don't think there are any docs. The Linux driver is the only reference I could find. The linux driver has pci/usb shims around a common core, much like some other OpenBSD wireless drivers do (e.g. athn(4)). I believe a good approach would be to write a working PCI

Re: Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 04:55:23AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Stefan Sperling said: I don't think there are any docs. The Linux driver is the only reference I could find. The linux driver has pci/usb shims around a common core, much like some other OpenBSD wireless drivers do

Re: Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 04:55:23AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: That was my plan, though I hoped there is some documentation from Realtek i could use to avoid looking at Linux driver - I'm afraid Linux people would react badly if their driver is used even as plain reference, without any

Re: Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Tobias Ulmer said: No, this is not how copyright works. What you want to learn from looking at their code is not the part that is copyrighted, but the facts, like which registers needs to be set to what value at which time and sequence. Whoever wrote the driver copied those facts out of a

Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-14 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Hello! I'm strugling to find any documentation for RTL8188* wireless devices (including those already supported in urtwn driver). I wrote to Realtek, but no responce followed. My problem is that I have a MiniPCI RTL8188CE device in my ThinkPad, and I want to try writing a driver for it. AFAIK

Re: Documentation for Realtek 8188* devices

2013-11-14 Thread Jean Lucas
On Nov 14, 2013 7:30 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I'm strugling to find any documentation for RTL8188* wireless devices (including those already supported in urtwn driver). I wrote to Realtek, but no responce followed. My problem is that I have a