cyrozap / realtek-nic-re

Notes and utilities for reverse engineering Realtek USB NICs.

realtek-nic-re

Notes and utilities for reverse engineering Realtek USB NICs.

Quick start

Software dependencies

• Python 3
• Kaitai Struct Compiler
• Kaitai Struct Python Runtime

Procedure

1. Install dependencies.
2. Run make to generate the parser code used by extract_fw.py.
3. Obtain the rtl815*.bin binaries you're interested in. You can find these in the rtl_nic directory of the linux-firmware repo. For convenience, these firmware binaries can be downloaded in bulk using the firmware/download.sh script.
4. Extract the firmware image from each binary with ./extract_fw.py ..., where ... is the name of the fw-*.bin firmware binary.

License

Except where otherwise noted:

• All software in this repository (e.g., tools for downloading and extracting firmware, etc.) is made available under the Zero-Clause BSD (0BSD) license.
• All copyrightable content that is not software (e.g., reverse engineering notes, this README file, etc.) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.