Forgive me if this is not the correct 'area' to post to. I can't seem to find anything at all in regards to what I need/want. Basically, I've got BackTrack5 running on my Sidekick 4g, but the current wireless driver that's installed on the phone does not support monitor mode / packet injection. I was under the impression that most new devices would have an updated driver for the wireless device that would in fact support this. I can't seem to dig up any information on the web or my phone itself to tell me what hardware device it's using. Does anyone know what driver it's using or perhaps know where to get an updated driver package so I can try to get this working? Has anyone out there put BT5 ARM on their Sidekick?
This is the wrong section.
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Where would this type of inquiry go? I've scoured the forums for similar threads, but have found nothing related.
General section. Plus backtrack is very experimental on phone. With my experience is doesnt work well.
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It's a broadcom 4329, the easiest way to find that out was to look at the kernel config from samsung's source, otherwise you could have looked at /system/etc/wifi/
Broadcom cards are notoriously difficult to get working, especially with packet injection. The chances that you are going to get packet injection working are worse than your chances of getting official GB on this phone.
This topic has been beaten to death. Broadcom basically neuters wireless chips that go into phones so although the driver may allow the functionality for this particular brand of chip it lacks the physical capability.
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I got curious about USB Host mode for our Hero after seeing it on a G1. Found some interesting stuff that pertains primarily to the .27 kernel and 1.5, but with a possible starting place for anyone interested in working on a .29/2.1 driver.
Did some searching and found someone porting a driver to GSM Hero. that had figured out he could easily take a driver from u-boot for a freescale processor because the processor used the same licensed usb controller design as what was used in the MSM72XX in his GSM Hero. And the freescale had widely available documentation where the MSMs definitely do not. So he was able to use the freescale docs to come up an EHCI/MSM7201 USB host support driver. He could hook up a keyboard to his GSM hero and it just worked. Though he had to use a custom hub adaptation to address the lack of power on the USB port supplied by the phone. He later got USB External Storage working for his GSM hero.
WELLL the MSM7600 in our CDMA Heros are pretty much just CDMA versions of MSM720X. Surely they too share the same usb controller design. I compared the USB Device Mode Driver the GSM Hero with the one for our CDMA Hero and they are identical. So surely this confirms our MSM7600 too has the same usb controller design.
Apparently someone else with a CDMA Hero was already barking up this tree because I realized someone managed to compile the GSM guy's patch with HTC's source for the Sprint Hero yet got some errors and no help from the GSM guy.
Meanwhile, GSM guy implements switching between device and host mode via new driver (and its still kind of wonky). Then he spies a another source on codeaurora.com for his GSM hero that implements proper USB OnTheGo switching and tries to port it to his hero. He got it built but one of his reasons for coming off the .27 kernel (usb bus powered from the phone) turned out to be unworkable on his GSM Hero. He also wasn't ready to sort through the changes between .27 and .29 and making sure his patch worked with .29 on his phone. He went back to work on the his .27 driver patch and his latest incarnation is here. He is pretty much done with .27 driver now and awaiting HTC source for their 2.1/.29 kernel.
The codeaurora 2.6.29 msm kernel tree's USB host driver is here
I'm definitely not a developer, just technical enough to follow what was going on. Why did I type all that? So anyone who might know what to do would have all the information to get started. Thanks for reading!
Just for clarification, what exactly is USB Host Mode?
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Just for clarification, what exactly is USB Host Mode?
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This would allow you to hook a USB device to your hero.. You could mount sdcards.. Camera's.. Printers.. This would also allow you to mount USB wireless cards.. Packet injection with aircrack-ng on our hero's anyone?
-Keo
think of it as a usb port on your computer. plug it in and it loads what it needs to make it work. it is hosting the software to make your device that it needs
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This would allow you to hook a USB device to your hero.. You could mount sdcards.. Camera's.. Printers.. This would also allow you to mount USB wireless cards.. Packet injection with aircrack-ng on our hero's anyone?
-Keo
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I am sooo down with aircrack.... keep us posted!
ive looked at this before. i may again once im finished with all the other stuff im looking into but yah good find and nice reminder. also doesnt usb gadget support do the same thing or no? im just asking cuz i never understood the whole usb gadget thing for a mobile device and was wondering if this could possibly be one of the uses for it.
really would love to be able to control an emulator with a gamepad instead of onscreen stuffs. I found a WiiMote app but it won't work if the phone comes with SenseUI.
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also doesnt usb gadget support do the same thing or no? im just asking cuz i never understood the whole usb gadget thing for a mobile device and was wondering if this could possibly be one of the uses for it.
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as far as I could tell, usb gadget driver is what makes debugging mode and adb work.
I would like to find a tablet that does not have wireless capabilities built in. This would include 3G (or any cell service), WIFI, Bluetooth, or even Infra-Red!
I work in an area where devices with ANY wireless capability built in are not allowed. It is not enough to simply turn them off.
So, I am looking for a tablet that does not have these wireless capabilities built in.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
I am also interested in the answer to this.
I don't think there is such a device. And if there is, it's probably a very old tablet that was made before any of these technologies were created for tablets.
The market for wireless-less tablets is so small that it's very unlikely that anyone will make them. Removing WiFi and bluetooth for a handful of people is just too expensive.
close it maybe the best way.
I'm think...
Out of interest, how would they know?
Most tablets have an Airplane Mode which will disable all wireless functionality.
Or you could root it and remove the drivers..
not worth losing the job on not being up front... it would lead to questions of a lack of integrity...
Have a dev build a ROM for you . Im sure someone would be happy to help if you were to donate for their help and time.
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I think you'll be hard pressed to find anything main-stream that doesn't include all of those.
What if approached the power-that-be and present them with the idea of a disabled tablet where all of the drivers are removed? If they agree that is a solution you can then see about getting one of the Devs to build you the ROM as jtipton79 mentioned above.
Anyone find one can you PLEASE CONTACT ME ???
I have develop EMF and can't STAND WIFI, BLUETOOTH or ANYTHING WIRELESS ((((
YES, it SUCKS to me be (((, I know, but I just can't stand it.
So, if ANYONE on here READ this and find out, please please please let me know.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
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Buy a 2nd generation nexus 7. Open it and remove the internal connectivity chip. Buy an external wifi adapter and use it at home.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+7+2nd+Generation+Teardown/16072
http://w11.zetaboards.com/Pwnie_Express/topic/9053422/1/ the first post has a nice little tutorial for this card:
http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-11_TL-WN722N.html
Is it possible to usb tether a droid phone to the usb kit/dongle add-on that recently came out for the Transformer?
Wow!
I actually logged on to this thread with the same basic question in mind. I have a SGS 4G and would like to be able to USB tether it through the dock.
Maybe read the 3G dongle stuff and fiddle around? If you setup your phone as tether does the kernel see the device?
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Maybe read the 3G dongle stuff and fiddle around? If you setup your phone as tether does the kernel see the device?
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I haven't purchased the usb dongle yet so I wanted to see if anyone had any luck. Would be interested to know if anyone has any luck usb tethering through the keyboard dock.
Answered my own question: IT DOES NOT. I borrowed the keyboard dock from a friend and attempted to USB tether with the phone's built-in app plus other apps including pda net. It does not work. They all say you have to have Windows, Linux or Mac OS on your computer.
Having Linux (kernel) on our TF's I would assume that it's a driver issue that could be solved with an Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) or built into a custom kernel. I wouldn't expect whatever that is though, to be an integeral part of the stock kernel, nor necessarily however the docking port mates to USB at it's level.
I wonder how that works in relation to standard USB drivers.
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How does that process work? I have very general knowledge relating to Linux, but I wouldn't even know where to start trying to isolate the driver and trying to make it available for android to use. Know of any guides or starting points that would help me do it?
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How does that process work? I have very general knowledge relating to Linux, but I wouldn't even know where to start trying to isolate the driver and trying to make it available for android to use. Know of any guides or starting points that would help me do it?
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Google and the Linux source would but idk how the whole thing withthe docking port in between impacts it
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I'm trying to look into the bluetooth situation in the Infuse - the fact that it can't work in Cyanogenmod. I remember reading a post somewhere explaining that the Linux driver had never been submitted by the developer at Sony Ericson, and that post mentioned the model number of the chip. But I can't find the post! Can anyone help me out? I'm mainly trying to find the model number.
The reason I'm trying to find this is that I would like to find the original code in the Samsung-distributed kernel source. I'm poking around trying to find it, but it would help if I knew what particular chip or some keywords to grep for.
I don't know how far I'll be able to go this this (getting Bluetooth to work on my CM9-flashed Infuse), but I'm a software engineer and I'm bored, so let's see what happens ;-)
http://www.stericsson.com/products/cg2900-gps.jsp
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I'm currently working to add support for the DM9620 USB network adapter to the Android 4 kernel, specifically for the Samsung GT-I9100 (Galaxy S2) running CyanogenMod 9.
The driver can be found here: code.google.com/p/dm962x/source/browse/dm9620.c
I have added and compiled the driver into the kernel, along with enabling USB host mode. However, plugging the adapter into the phone does not cause a new device to appear (both `lsusb` and `ip link` show nothing new, and dmesg has no relevant messages).
I'm guessing that I didn't actually enable USB host mode correctly. Or maybe it's something else. But I don't really know enough to debug this on my own. Any insight provided would be very helpful.
Hey, go into the General section of Samsung Galaxy Nexus, there is a thread for "aircrack-ng", the original post show a couple of links + on page 2 there is another post from the same guy explaining on how to compile for Android.
Hope it could help.
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This turned out to be a pretty stupid hardware issue, unrelated to the kernel or the driver. I was lead to believe that the adapter was a 5 pin USB OTG cable, when it was actually a standard 4 pin. A quick hardware hack later and the device is recognized just fine.
Mind making a tutorial of this? Im interested in testing it out myself. Also, can you tell me how to add support for the Galaxy S III? Id be happy to, myself, but I dont know how right now. Thanks
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Mind making a tutorial of this? Im interested in testing it out myself. Also, can you tell me how to add support for the Galaxy S III? Id be happy to, myself, but I dont know how right now. Thanks
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I second the request for a tutorial of how to do this. Thanks!