From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Cc: "Simsek, Burak" <burak.simsek@fokus.fraunhofer.de>,
David Quan <David.Quan@Atheros.com>,
Amod Bodas <Amod.Bodas@Atheros.com>,
Stephen Chen <Stephen.Chen@Atheros.com>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 4/5] mac80211: add WoW support
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:56:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100729205637.GH4925@tux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100729153117.GB4925@tux>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:31:17AM -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 06:31:02AM -0700, Simsek, Burak wrote:
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > we tried your patches on the old version as described in your patch file.
> >
> > As you wrote the first issue was about the getting the right hardware. We
> > first wanted to use RS71-USB from ubiquity and it has AR9280. However, we
> > then realized that the implementation was for pci. We had assumed that RS71
> > would use ath9k but it used AR9170 driver. First question: do you think that
> > we can do similar patch for usb without much effort?
>
> Well, ar9170 uses Atheros radios but uses an old Zydas MAC so the programming
> would be different and I am not sure if ar9170 ever supported WoW. Stephen
> and Christian would know best at this point, whom I have CC'd.
I checked and ar9170 does not support WoW in hardware but since the firmware is
open (GPLv2) a WoW solution might be possible through software. You'd just have
to implement it. May want to look at carl9170.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 20:56 UTC|newest]
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2010-07-27 17:20 ` [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 4/5] mac80211: add WoW support Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <804B13F8F3D94A4AB18B9B01ACB68FA1037B526B@EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
2010-07-29 15:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-29 20:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2010-09-13 17:11 ` AW: " Simsek, Burak
2010-09-13 17:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-14 9:53 ` AW: " Simsek, Burak
2010-09-14 14:33 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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