Dear Mr. Perez-Gonzalez,
My name is Thiago and I live in Atlanta, Georgia. As of today, I am
relying on a company called Clear (www.clear.com) to provide me High
Speed internet access, and they use WiMAX.
I'm using a modem with one ethernet port, so no drivers required. The
service has been great so far: 5.44 Mbps down measured by speedtest.net.
The sad news is they don't have linux or mac drivers for their USB
dongles. They use primarily Motorola products. The USB dongle they
sell is the Motorola USBw 100 (link: http://www.motorola.com/business/US-EN/USBw_100_US-EN+++.do?vgnextoid=4891424803a7c110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD)
.
According to my research, you are THE wimax guy for the kernel. My
question is: How the process of writing an open source driver for a
new device like the USBw 100 works? Do I have to contact Motorola? Is
it something that you could help?
Unfortunately, at least for now, Clear has coverage only in Atlanta
(where I live), Portland (where Linus Torvalds lives, I think) and Las
Vegas.
I am _not_ in any shape or form affiliated with Clear. I am just a
happy customer donating my time to solve this problem.
There is a reseller here in Atlanta that is looking for the solution
as well. He sold me the equipment and said that he gets this question
_all_ the time: "Does the USB dongle work on a Mac or Linux?" In the
event of you being interested on helping write a driver or point me in
the right direction, I could talk to the reseller and he could provide
you this USB dongle for testing purposes.
I guess the best way for me to help this growing market is to write
you this e-mail, because i'm not a kernel developer. Also, it's such a
new market... I can't believe I have wimax. It's finally here!
What do you say? If this USB 100w and other devices are going to be
100% Linux compatible someday, I think you are the most qualified
developer to make this happen.
Thank you very much for your time, Mr. Perez-Gonzalez.
Looking forward for a reply,
Thiago.
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