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From: "David Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: N device with open source firmware
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:09:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333681744.4108.150.camel@hp-dhlii> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRGNgUZqvgtuEfJk7vZ0Y4mEzadTBj4G3VQwmTykvy0R9dp8g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 13:00 +1000, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 04:15, David Lynch Jr. <dhlii@dlasys.net> wrote:
> > I am looking for recommendations for an 802.11N device that is well
> > documented and has opensource firmware for a project.  I do nto care
> > whether it is mPCI, USB, .... so long as there is good documentation on
> > the chipset and good open source firmware as I will be making extensive
> > firmware changes for testing purposes.
> 
> If I recall correctly, the ar9170 devices with the carl9170 driver use
> an open source firmware and are 802.11n capable.

I have a fair amount of experience with the ar9170 and the carl9170
firmware. I was hoping something was better documented and supported. 
But I can live with that if i have to.

 thank you. 
> 
> There was also an effort to produce a open source firmware for
> broadcom devices, but I'm not sure what it's status is and what
> progress they made.
> 
> Also, there's a GSoC project to open source the firmware for the USB
> ath9k devices, (ath9k_htc) but I don't think any progress has been
> made.
> 
> Thanks,
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-06  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-05 18:15 N device with open source firmware David Lynch Jr.
2012-04-06  3:00 ` Julian Calaby
2012-04-06  3:09   ` David Lynch Jr. [this message]
2012-04-06 11:26     ` Christian Lamparter
2012-04-06 15:30       ` David Lynch Jr.
2012-04-06 22:33         ` Adrian Chadd
2012-04-07 20:20           ` David Lynch Jr.

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