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1OZWPAN USB Host Controller Driver
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3This driver is a USB HCD driver that does not have an associated a physical
4device but instead uses Wi-Fi to communicate with the wireless peripheral.
5The USB requests are converted into a layer 2 network protocol and transmitted
6on the network using an ethertype (0x892e) regestered to Ozmo Device Inc.
7This driver is compatible with existing wireless devices that use Ozmo Devices
8technology.
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10To operate the driver must be bound to a suitable network interface. This can
11be done when the module is loaded (specifying the name of the network interface
12as a paramter - e.g. 'insmod ozwpan g_net_dev=go0') or can be bound after
13loading using an ioctl call. See the ozappif.h file and the ioctls
14OZ_IOCTL_ADD_BINDING and OZ_IOCTL_REMOVE_BINDING.
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16The devices connect to the host use Wi-Fi Direct so a network card that supports
17Wi-Fi direct is required. A recent version (0.8.x or later) version of the
18wpa_supplicant can be used to setup the network interface to create a persistent
19autonomous group (for older pre-WFD peripherals) or put in a listen state to
20allow group negotiation to occur for more recent devices that support WFD.
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22The protocol used over the network does not directly mimic the USB bus
23transactions as this would be rather busy and inefficient. Instead the chapter 9
24requests are converted into a request/response pair of messages. (See
25ozprotocol.h for data structures used in the protocol).
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