Re: [Madwifi-devel] Survey: What are you using MadWifi for, and why?

[David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>]

Felix Fietkau wrote:
> David Acker wrote:
>> Also, I don't know if ath5k will work on products based on 
>> Atheros WiSOCs like Ubiquiti's PicoStation and Bullet.
> I have some work in progress patches for that. They won't work yet (in
> fact I just ported them to a newer version of compat-wireless without
> testing, so they probably won't even compile yet *g*), but according to
> my rough estimation, they contain about 70-80% of what's necessary to
> support this hw. You can find them at http://nbd.name/ath5k-wisoc.tar.gz
> If anybody is seriously interested in hacking on this stuff, please take
> a look at this patch series and contact me afterwards...
Interesting.  Time permitting, I will try to take a look at this a bit 
this week.


> 
>> A lesser issue 
>> (more of a pain for me than an ath5k issue) is that I have some 
>> platforms that use an older kernel and moving up to a newer kernel will 
>> have to be done without hardware vendor support.
> What platforms with old kernels are you using? Maybe some of them are
> being worked on in OpenWrt already ;)
Perhaps.  I have a CM-X255 
http://www.compulab.co.il/x255/html/x255-cm-datasheet.htm combined with 
a custom board for PCI with an intel pro 100 and a miniPCI slot holding 
a ubiquiti card.

-ack