Subject: Re: network interface in userland?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/15/2007 10:35:35
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:07:40PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Fri Dec 14 2007 at 10:56:14 -0600, reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
> > By the way, I have a USB-based internal wireless interface I want 
> > supported:
> 
> You need to access the hardware somehow.  For this you probably need a
> userspace "port" of bus_space and bus_dma, although I don't know how
> exactly that would work.  You also need to tap into the interrupts,
> for which polling might be a better (easier) solution.

libusb provides that specifically for USB devices. That doesn't solve
the problem of having a 802.11 stack, but at least the hardware access
is easy.

Joerg