OpenSolaris

Heads up: Wireless USB support

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:33:28 +0800
From: Lei Chen <Raymond.Chen at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads up: Wireless USB support

The integration of project WUSB and UWB:

	PSARC 2007/425 Wireless USB support
	6422602 Wireless USB support under Solaris

introduces the support of Wireless USB industry standard, developed by
USB-IF. This putback, as the first phase of this project, integrates
hwahc(7D) and hwarc(7D), which are used to drive HWA dongles. The
following are also integrated:

	wusb_ca(7D) -  used to associate a WUSB device with the host,
	wusb_df(7D) -  download firmware for some HWA dongles,
	hwa1480_fw(7D) -  Firmware for HWA dongles based on Intel i1480 chips,
	uwba(7D)    -  a kernel module to handle common UWB protocols,
	wusbadm(1M) -  a utility to manage device association information.

Users should first use svcadm(1M) to enable the WUSB service,
svc:/system/wusbd:default. Then, users can use wusbadm(1M) to set up
association between an HWA host and a WUSB device. With the
association, users can connect a WUSB device to the associated host
and then do data transfer between them as the wired USB devices do.

WUSB related CRs can be filed under the following product/cat/subcat:

	driver issues:   solaris/driver/wusb
	utility issues:  solaris/utility/wusbadm

Questions can be directed to:

	usb-core at sun dot com

Thanks,
WUSB Development Team