WiMAX driver crash on load

[Nicolas GIRARD]

Charles,

Whatever you could share with me would be greatly appreciated - You  
can contact me at ngirard @ gmail.com if you want to keep it off the  
list. Thanks a lot in advance.

Nicolas

On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:25 PM, charles zhuang wrote:

> I have the engineering contacts in Motorola to get their dongle/ 
> drivers. For Beceem and Asus, my boss has the contacts thru some  
> sort of partnership.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Girard [mailto:ngirard at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:06 PM
> To: charles zhuang
> Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez; wimax at linuxwimax.org; Andrew Zabolotny
> Subject: Re: WiMAX driver crash on load
>
> Thanks all for your answer, that helps a lot.
>
> I had to do the same trick with the mass storage for my Sprint EVDO  
> U720 dongle. I had one of the early version and it started to work  
> after a firmware upgrade as you said.
>
> What I need at the end of the day is a WiMAX device (preferably a  
> dongle or PCMCIA) with drivers available for Linux. I went to the  
> Asus website but they don't seem to offer the option. Did you get it  
> through regular sales channels or directly from the engineering  
> department ? Seems like it is only available in Asia or Russia (I'm  
> in the U.S)
>
> I would not mind going the Beceem/Motorola road if it is available.   
> My experience with early test version of the PMCIA Beceem card was  
> horrendous, even under Windows. Did you get the hardware/software  
> through your connections at your previous job ? How would one get  
> his hands on the software/hardware combo ?
>
> Nicolas
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:45 PM, charles zhuang <charlesz at opengridcomputing.com 
> > wrote:
> I have tried it. I can get out of the mass storage mode, but I don't
> know how to make the dongle go back into the normal mode. My Asus
> contact told me that they have some new software and firmware that can
> do better, but their engineering team is really slow to address my
> question.
> Any way, Beceem and Motorola software and hardware can address my  
> need,
> so I gave up on Intel/Asus.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez [mailto:inaky at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:01 PM
> To: wimax at linuxwimax.org
> Cc: charles zhuang; 'Nicolas GIRARD'; 'Andrew Zabolotny'
> Subject: Re: WiMAX driver crash on load
> On Tuesday 06 January 2009, charles zhuang wrote:
> > I bought from Asus. I intend to use it on a linux device, but found
> out
> > this model, WUSB25E2V2, is only for windows. The open source linux
> code
> > can't be used directly on this dongle.
>
> Talking without having seen it, it should work if we can get the  
> dongle
> to exit the mass storage mode and enter the normal mode. We'd need  
> asus
> to explain how to do that, or someone should try the suggestions Dan
> Williams made of using an SCSI eject command on it.
>
> --
> Inaky
>

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