Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB

[Kamil Dzida <kamil.dzida@gmail.com>]

Pat Erley <pat-lkml@...> writes:

> 
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Purushotham
> > Nayak<nayak_purushotham@...> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm interested in working on this. I just posted to the Linux driver
project a few days ago if I could work on
> the atheros USB devices. Please let me also know the USB device that uses the
AR5523.
> > 
> > Dan recently purchased one of these devices. Dan any pointers?
> 
> I have a few WPN111 Refurbed devices that are AR5523 based.  Apparently
> there is a WPN111v2 that may or may not be otus supported, I can't confirm 
> that.  Based on pictures from google and the devices I own, the AR5523 ones
> are silver, and the Otus ones are white.  I'd be more than happy to test and
> do what I can to try to help, but my time is limited, so I'm not up for 
> taking the task onto my shoulders right now.
> 
> Pat
> 
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It seems that OpenBSD has driver for AR5523 (AR5005UG and AR5005UX) upstream. I
doubt that they would like to share their code with Linux - like dual licensing
GPL/BSD. Fortunately their documentation mentions which hardware includes those
chipsets, look here:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uath&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386


Note that Atheros AR5007UG (alternatively known as AR2524/AR5524) is supported
by Linux zd1211rw driver.

Kamil