Reverse engineering; How to...

Chris.H bsd.chris at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 28 20:22:44 UTC 2012


Greetings,
 Over the past year, in an effort to convert my server farm to wireless, I've purchased some half a dozen USB wireless dongles, at a total cost of ~150.00. Unfortunately, none of them are (yet) supported — I know, I know, I've already had this debate with both dev's, & users. On the up-side, I've devised a resource that will greatly assist would-be adopters in selecting, and researching these, and other adapters _currently supported_ under under FreeBSD. That said; the adapter I most recently purchased, is quite nice (Cisco(Linksys) AE2500 Wireless-N).
Boasts 2.5/5GHz @300Mbps. I figured (wrongly) because Linksys is so well supported on FreeBSD, that the likelihood of this being supported would be good. At any rate, given it's not, and because I _do_ have the Window$ drivers on the install CD. What are the possibilities I can reverse-engineer the drivers into a FreeBSD loadable module?
I can unpack the setup file to extract the .sys files. While I _could_ utilize the ndisulator to load them, that's not my goal. Should I unpack the .sys file, and attempt to decompile/disassemble it? Or attempt to load it, and dump it from memory?
— hacker/cracker advice _strongly_ desired —

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#usbconfig -d ugen1.2 dump_device_desc
ugen1.2: <Linksys AE2500 Cisco> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON
bLength = 0x0012
bDescriptorType = 0x0001
bcdUSB = 0x0200
bDeviceClass = 0x00ff
bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
idVendor = 0x13b1
idProduct = 0x003a
bcdDevice = 0x0001
iManufacturer = 0x0001 <Cisco>
iProduct = 0x0002 <Linksys AE2500>
iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <000000000001>
bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
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P.S. This message was sent from my "smart phone".
Apologies for any (mis)formatting. :-(

--Chris.H

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