IO80211Controller hack

[ellie-idb]

@zxystd

These days I am trying to find ways to fake an 80211Interface so the native client can communicate with our driver, and we don't even to write another user client. But up to now, there is no further progress in this way. I have write an interface, set the interface sub type to 80211interface, and I know how the IOCTL command dispatch, but I don't know how does the system recognize IO80211Family is load, and the wifi panel show. Do you know something about this?

I don’t know if creating an IO80211Interface would work. It seems that the controller itself overrides several base functions (i.e: newUserClient, see: hatf0/Black80211-Catalina)

The way I was envisioning it was to build two drivers- the one facing the 80211 stack, and just an IOService or something facing the physical layer, so we can easily build up the driver’s functions without having to restart every time due to Apple’s WiFi implementation always retaining the card regardless of terminate() being called.

[zxystd]

The same idea with mine. but maybe i will pay some time to have a try to fake, hope it will work.

[pyroemaniac]

@zxystd sorry to bother you on here, but I cannot create an account on bbs.pcbeta. GPD has posted a video on their youtube channel showing you running Mac OS Catalina on your GPD Win Max. Is there anyway that you can upload your EFI to somewhere other than bbs.pcbeta so that the GPD Win Max family in other countries can enjoy what you have made possible?

Again sorry for bothering you.