<surajkhurana27@gmail.com <mailto:surajkhurana27@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all, I am a newbie in linux world and want to learn linux device drivers.
I'm also new to Linux device driver world and am interested to learn. Besides learning and fun, I want to write a driver for Green Packet's<http://www.wimaxian.com/2009/12/02/green-packet-dx-tower-and-uh-shuttle-styl...> UH-235 wimax modem. Probably you could also join? :) If you are interested, we could find out, as a first step, How the Kernel responses, when *any* hardware is attached to a system that
runs Linux?
Probably, dmesg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmesg> command can help us a bit. Our next step would be to find out, How to hack/know about a device attached with a Linux system, provided that
there is no driver currently available for the device?
I've also collected the source file provided by Green Packet. It was actually a deb file and I extracted it. There is really no source except shared object (.so/.ko) files. This deb file, reportedly, only works in Ubuntu 9.04, which uses Linux Kernel Version *2.6.28*. Any other installation on newer Ubuntu failed. Possibly be a Kernel issue? Let's find out! If you want the deb/source file, let me know. I'll mail you. Green Packet's UH-235 wimax modem uses Mediateks m7118 SoC. And reportedly, Mediatek's chips are not developer friendly. Like they don't provide useful information to the developers outside. :P Happy hacking! -- Sincerely, Sazzad Bin Kamal