[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[Timo Kunze]

Hi,

I hope this is the right list to ask such things. Sorry if not.

I need a WLAN USB dongle and want to make sure it works with Linux or 
will do so in the near future. My favorites are the Netgear WN111 and 
the Netgear WNDA3100. Revision 2.0 of the WN111 seems to have an Atheros 
Draft-N chip inside (probably AR9001U), the WNDA3100 has an Atheros 
AR9001U-2NX inside (the device id seems to be 0846:9010).
Currently the athk9 driver doesn't support the AR9001U chip, right? Is 
support for this chip planned? If so, are we talking about some 
weeks/few months or more likely about >4 months?

Thanks in advance
Timo

[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[John Dong]

According to previous posts to this list by developers, this is a PCI  
only driver. Support for USB chipsets is unrelated


John




On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Timo Kunze <TKunze71216@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope this is the right list to ask such things. Sorry if not.
>
> I need a WLAN USB dongle and want to make sure it works with Linux or
> will do so in the near future. My favorites are the Netgear WN111 and
> the Netgear WNDA3100. Revision 2.0 of the WN111 seems to have an  
> Atheros
> Draft-N chip inside (probably AR9001U), the WNDA3100 has an Atheros
> AR9001U-2NX inside (the device id seems to be 0846:9010).
> Currently the athk9 driver doesn't support the AR9001U chip, right? Is
> support for this chip planned? If so, are we talking about some
> weeks/few months or more likely about >4 months?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Timo
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[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[Timo Kunze]

> According to previous posts to this list by developers, this is a PCI  
> only driver. Support for USB chipsets is unrelated
I see. Thanks for your answer.
Does this mean support for the Atheros USB chipsets is not even planned 
(be it as part of the ath9k project or as a spin-off project)?

Timo
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[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[Michael Renzmann]

Hi.

Timo Kunze wrote:
> Does this mean support for the Atheros USB chipsets is not even planned
> (be it as part of the ath9k project or as a spin-off project)?

Well, there is a "work in progress" Linux driver for Atheros-based USB
devices somewhere. It is a port of the uath driver available on OpenBSD,
afaik. Not sure about its status, nor about the support of any recent USB
chipset from Atheros.

As far as madwifi.org is concerned, we currently have no plans to actively
work on such a driver. However, if someone wants to pick up that topic, we
are happy to support this effort by providing resources on our server,
including perhaps monetary support and/or providing hardware to test the
driver on.

Bye, Mike

[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:31:44PM -0700, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Timo Kunze wrote:
> > Does this mean support for the Atheros USB chipsets is not even planned
> > (be it as part of the ath9k project or as a spin-off project)?
> 
> Well, there is a "work in progress" Linux driver for Atheros-based USB
> devices somewhere. It is a port of the uath driver available on OpenBSD,
> afaik. Not sure about its status,

The driver you mention here Michael was being worked on by Chris Hellwig but
its for our really old chipsets and last I checked it was work left open for
someone to pick up.

> nor about the support of any recent USB
> chipset from Atheros.

Will bring this up internally.

  Luis

[ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:11:03PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:31:44PM -0700, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Timo Kunze wrote:
> > > Does this mean support for the Atheros USB chipsets is not even planned
> > > (be it as part of the ath9k project or as a spin-off project)?
> > 
> > Well, there is a "work in progress" Linux driver for Atheros-based USB
> > devices somewhere. It is a port of the uath driver available on OpenBSD,
> > afaik. Not sure about its status,
> 
> The driver you mention here Michael was being worked on by Chris Hellwig but
> its for our really old chipsets and last I checked it was work left open for
> someone to pick up.

Yes, and while I tried to at least bring it up to the latest kernel
recently I have to say it's bitrotted far enough that I don't know
what to do with it anymore.  I think it's time to at least make it
public now  with the slim hope that someone else might pick it up.