wifi & Umts usb keys

[iw2evk]

Hi,
this post for ask regarding wi fi and umts in DOS.
Actually Dos can acceding on wifi via older PCMCIA wifi Orinoco card with
a max of 11 Mb/sec (theorical max average speed..).
No others drivers are develpooping for dos wifi.
Now ,exists some usb key for wifi, but only win32 drivers/mac/linux
drivers are released.On the other hand,many mobile telephone company sales
usb key with internal umts transceiver for mobile surfing via cell phone networks.
(max average speed 100 Mb/sec teorically).

It's possible create DOS drivers for acceding this USB keys?

Roberto iw2evk

[Bret]

Almost anything is possible, if somebody wants to take the time to do it. I think I can safely say that there's virtually nothing you can do in WIndows/Linux/Mac that you can't also do in DOS, but you won't get any help from Microsoft or the hardware manufacturers to do it, so it takes a long time.

[BastetFurry]

@iw2evk:
You could always use the linux kernel for looking up how some hardware is used.

[iw2evk]

Hi at all,

regarding the possibilty to write a driver DOS for wifi usb key,

i've found at

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/matrix.html

a list of wifi device (included USB wifi key) with a relative free open
source GPL drivers for Linux.

Can be usefull for "scratch up " the info for write a DOS driver?

Iw2evk

Roberto

[iw2evk]

This book (sales from Amazon) maybe can help in open source drivers
writing..

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-MS-Dos-De ... 0201608375

[c.m]

This book (sales from Amazon) maybe can help in open source drivers
writing..

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-MS-Dos-De ... 0201608375

Sorry, I own this book but it probably isn't going to help here much. It's about the DOS kernel's idea of "device drivers" only, that means block device drivers (for disks) and character device drivers (for terminals). These drivers usually don't work as "real-time" either, which the USB drivers require for background operation. (Let's say the device drivers in the book simply are different from these required for USB and network devices.)

[iw2evk]

An dfrom this project it's not possible "scratch-up" some ideas for drivers for device like cd rw or wifi -umts key ?

http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/

[Bret]

That might be one place to look for ideas when the time comes to write drivers for those kinds of devices, and there are several other places as well. You do need to be careful about licensing, though, since my programs, and programs that are derived from them, are not GPL. You can search GPL code for ideas and techniques and methods, but you can't just copy the source code. Besides, most GPL source is written in C, and DOS device drivers should usually be written in ASM (they don't necessarily have to be, but they should be).

The problem is not finding the resources needed to figure out how to write the drivers (at least for CD-RW), it's finding the time to actually do it. As I stated before, you're welcome to start writing a driver yourself if you want to. It's going to be a long time before I can get to anything like that, so hopefully somebody else will have enough desire or need to do it and will start something before I can get around to it.

[iw2evk]

Hi,
in the Alfa.com page ,i've found many SOURCE in C for usb wifi device.
The source are intended for linux, but i suppose can be modified for dos (i' know many porting fron linux to dos)

the site is :

http://www.alfa.com.tw/in/front/bin/ptl ... ory=105397

Roberto iw2evk