This application exports ieee802154 radio over USB to be used in other Operation Systems like Linux. In this scenario Linux SoftMAC driver would be used implementing ieee802154 stack inside Linux. When connected to Linux it is recognized by Linux with wpanusb kernel driver as: ... T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=8086 ProdID=ff03 Rev=01.00 C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=wpanusb ... bring it up with: #!/bin/sh PHY=`iwpan phy | grep wpan_phy | cut -d' ' -f2` echo 'Using phy' $PHY iwpan dev wpan0 set pan_id 0xabcd iwpan dev wpan0 set short_addr 0xbeef iwpan phy $PHY set channel 0 26 ip link add link wpan0 name lowpan0 type lowpan ip link set wpan0 up ip link set lowpan0 up