[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Garrett D'Amore]

I don't know about porting from Windows (or MacOS X), but from Linux, 
the libusb interfaces are compatible for *most* purposes.  It should be 
a relative slam dunk to make a Linux driver work.

    -- Garrett

David Clack wrote:
> I have one of these wifi analyzers http://www.metageek.net/
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> The GUI ports fine, I just cannot get going on the USB driver.
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> I'd love to see a walk through of how to start porting code.
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> Dave
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> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 08:28 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> > "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com <mailto:gdamore at sun.com>> wrote:
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>> >   
>> >>> Some information about the general USB driver structure would be great.
>> >>>
>> >>> Also some hints on how to connect mobile phones that do not identify
>> >>> as being serial line emulations. I guess that most of them do, so it is
>> >>> only a matter of a few tricks to get them running.
>> >>>       
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>> >   
>> >> I've not worked with the kernel USB driver framework much in Solaris.  
>> >> (I have played with libusb, however.)  If someone knows more here and 
>> >> can present/guide that would be awesome.
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>> >>     
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>> > For this kind of problems, I did asume that libusb should do trick.
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>> > It would be nice if somebody who is talking about USB could give an overview
>> > even for libusb.
>> >
>> > Jörg
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>> >   
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>> I'd be happy to talk about libusb.  Unfortunately (or not), I know a bit 
>> more about than most typical consumers.  (Primarily because I tried to 
>> make it do things which it was not intended to do.)  Another 
>> unconference topic.
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>>     -- Garrett
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