Re : [Qemu-devel] Atheros Wireless Device Emulation

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Hi Clemens,

I wonder if you still maintain this code ?
Qemu has recently changed the way to manage network devices,
and I had to do changes to keep it working.

This worked like an charm until today, and is still interesting me as Im beginning tests
for wireless nics in ReactOS.

 
CCing ros-dev mailing list in case someone has it already built it in.
Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle

----- Message d'origine ----
>   De : Clemens Kolbitsch <clemens.kol(a)gmx.at>
>  À : qemu-devel(a)nongnu.org
>  Envoyé le : Jeudi, 28 Février 2008, 15h12mn 09s
>  Objet : [Qemu-devel] Atheros Wireless Device Emulation
>  
>  Hi!
>  This patch adds virtual wireless networking support to qemu-0.9.1.
>  Besides being funny having a wireless LAN in Qemu, I guess wireless driver 
>  developers could use this a lot.
>  
>  I have 3 screenshots here:
>  http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0126605/qemu_atheros/atheros_wlan_hardware.jpg
>  http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0126605/qemu_atheros/atheros_wlan_connecting.jpg
>  http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0126605/qemu_atheros/atheros_wlan_connected.jpg
>  
>  
>  Some infos about the emulation:
>  - We simulate an Atheros AR5212 NIC
>  - Additionally, we have a virutal access point that can
>     be used to connect to Qemu
>  - The code is based on ath5k reverse engineering from
>     about 10 months ago. I did not check what these guys
>     did since then.
>  - I added tons of hours doing reverse engineering.. but the
>     code is still a MESS! I'm sorry, but at least it works ;-)
>  - We can simulate different network card vendors. I.e.
>     through an additional model-name, we can specify if the
>     network card is identified as "Atheros XXXX" or "HP W400", etc.
>     ---> different drivers are installed automatically by guest system
>  - The hardware reverse engineering still lacks some stuff. Known
>     problems:
>      * Depending on the driver, you have to use a different model
>         ---> official windows drivers VS. madwifi Linux driver
>      * Newest madwifi code probably does not work
>         ---> Use Madwifi 0.9.3. Works just fine ;-)
>  - The networking-code is still a *little* ugly. Outbound connections
>     work, but there seem to be problems for inbound connections (e.g.
>     tcp-redirection, etc.)
>  - VM Snapshots supported
>  
>  Some infos about the patch:
>  - 2 lines added to pci.c
>  - added function declaration to pci.h
>  - patched Makefile.target (2 lines)
>  - added files qemu/hw/atheros_wlan_.*.[ch]
>  - took 2 files from wireshark to generate CRC32 checksums
>  - took 3 files from ath5k
>  ---> licence people, please have a look if that is ok!!
>  
>  Enabling emulation:
>  
>  As I wrote above, there are still problems when using the same code for 
>  windows and linux guests. The model parameter helps here. Using the NIC on 
>  windows (that's how I tested):
>  
>  qemu ... -net user -net nic,model=atheros_wlan_winxp_HPW400 ...
>  
>  and
>  
>  qemu ... -net user -net nic,model=atheros_wlan_linux_HPW400 ...
>  
>  for Linux systems.
>  
>  The "atheros_wlan" is the device itself, "_linux" /
> "_windows" is necessary 
>  because the reverse engineering is still buggy and "_HPW400" gives the NIC 
>  identification for the guest. HPW400 is the Hewlett-Packard W400 device, but 
>  there are some more (see the atheros_wlan_eeprom.h for details).
>  
>  I have used the device on Debian (Kubuntu) Linux. The guests were WinXP-SP2 
>  and Kubuntu Linux, Kernel 2.6.20, MadWifi 0.9.3. My system is x86, so there 
>  might be problems with big/little endian I am not aware of!!
>  
>  Please try the patch and let me know what you think of it!!
>  
>  Greets,
>  Clemens