HPNA 2.0 Information that might be helpful

HPNA 2.0 Information that might be helpful

[Shawn Starr]

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http://www.homepna.org/docs/paper500.pdf

I found this document via google and it tells you the format for an
HPNA 2.0 frame

Shawn.


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Re: HPNA 2.0 Information that might be helpful

[Matti Aarnio]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:15:38PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> http://www.homepna.org/docs/paper500.pdf
> I found this document via google and it tells you the format for an
> HPNA 2.0 frame
>   Shawn.

The HPNA looks, for all intents and purposes, as Ethernet.
The interesting question will be card drivers.

If card vendor writes a driver themselves, and sends it out
in source, we are happy.   If they give (to selected few
contact people) sufficient information for writing a driver,
that works too.

Reading the Broadcom  BCM4211 and BCM4413 product briefs
does give me an idea that the thing wont be quite simple.
That is, unless the Soft-V.90 is ditched.
(Biggest code is at that modem stuff anyway.)

Even writing a soft-modem into separate user-space entity
with only the low-level hardware driving in the kernel
is doable by letting the modem stuff to be binary-only.
For several reasons that is most likely appropriate way
even to do it.  Soft-modem has no place in kernel.

/Matti Aarnio

Re: HPNA 2.0 Update Binary only driver released as beta

[Shawn Starr]

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the HomePNA group has given me a binary driver for HPNA 2.0 Linksys
cards.

It is beta and can be found at:

lynx ftp://ftp.linksys.com/beta/linux_full_binary_2_33.exe

you can use Wine to extract it since its a windows setup executable
(LAME!)

perhaps we can dissasemble this module and build a non cluttered
driver? :-)

>From the readme.txt:

Linux Release 2_33

Linux network device driver for the Broadcom BCM42XX PCI

InsideLine 10Mbps Home Phoneline Networking chip.

This release includes:
- support for HPNA 2.0 Certification Testing
- MODVERSIONS support for Linux 2.2 and 2.4 Kernels.  These
modules have been compiled and tested with MODVERSIONS defined
on a RedHat 6.2 system with include files from the RedHat
2.2.14-5.0 kernel.  The driver for the 2.4 kernel uses the
2.4.0-test10 kernel distribution from ftp.kernel.org.

Note:  The kernels should be compiled with nonSMP

This distribution includes two il.o executables:

  - \Kernel_2.2.14-5.0\il.o ---> 62545 bytes (nonSMP)
  - \Kernel_2.4.0-Test10\il.o ---> 70695 bytes (nonSMP)


Shawn Starr wrote:

> http://www.homepna.org/docs/paper500.pdf
>
> I found this document via google and it tells you the format for an
> HPNA 2.0 frame
>
> Shawn.

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