Thanks for your response.


Since the current driver is somewhat entangled the first step would be
the refactoring of the current implementation, i.e., separating its
various parts a bit into

  - component frontend (basically the Nic session provding part)
  - wireless stack (mac80211, cfg80211, …)
  - iwlwifi driver

and hide the PCIe transport portion into the iwlwifi part for now
(although I'm not sure if that's easily achievable). The goal would be
to make the wireless stack transport agnostic so that a USB backend can
be easily added and the frontend, which includes WPA handling, may be
shared by both kinds of devices. The next step is then porting a USB
device driver and making the necessary adjustments.

Yeah, it is a bit of work :-

That does sound like a challenge. I'm not sure it's very possible for me either because I don't have an actual Intel wifi card to check against, so refactoring the current driver would be a non-debuggable step...

Another thought that came to me is whether Sculpt VMs can do USB passthrough, and then I could run a Linux VM which will have the drivers. Is that possible? Could the network connection make it's way out of the VM?

Regards,
Colin