I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
To get updates just subscribe to the wiki. There you will find
information regarding any old legacy Atheros driver and any proper
upstream driver.
I'd like to also take the time to announce two devices for which
support is currently being developed for: ar5523 and ar9271. Both
ar5523 and ar9271 device support is currently being worked on either
by the community or by Atheros itself. Both of these driver projects
will be using th Linux driver project [1] to gain traction. Patches
and development discussions regarding these two drivers prior to
getting upstream into drivers/net/wireless/ will take place on the
Linux driver project mailing list [2]. For direct one-on-one
communication for support and development we will rely on the
#linux-wireless IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Both devices are USB
but differ greatly, please visit the ar5523 page [2] and the ar9271
page [3] for further device specifics and more information.
The model of development for ar9271 device support is rather new -- we
are not targeting staging, instead we target using the strength of
community development at an extremely early stage, as early as is
possible, even before the device is functional. If we get a device
driver functional prior to meeting upstream requirements then so be it
-- and the driver does gets stuffed into drivers/staging. End goal is
to get it into proper drivers/net/wireless/ but obviously it will not
hurt to get users some device functionality prior to that.
The time of turnaround to getting users supported either through
drivers/staging or drivers/net/wireless/ will ultimately depend on the
resources dedicated to it. Right now I know only Stefan
Lippers-Hollmann is working on ar5523 support and I'm the only one
working on ar9271 support. With your help I am in hopes this will
change soon.
[1] http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
[2] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
[3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523
[4] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9271
Luis
2009/9/3 Gábor Stefanik <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>>
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>>
>> To get updates just subscribe to the wiki. There you will find
>> information regarding any old legacy Atheros driver and any proper
>> upstream driver.
>>
>> I'd like to also take the time to announce two devices for which
>> support is currently being developed for: ar5523 and ar9271. Both
>> ar5523 and ar9271 device support is currently being worked on either
>> by the community or by Atheros itself. Both of these driver projects
>> will be using th Linux driver project [1] to gain traction. Patches
>> and development discussions regarding these two drivers prior to
>> getting upstream into drivers/net/wireless/ will take place on the
>> Linux driver project mailing list [2]. For direct one-on-one
>> communication for support and development we will rely on the
>> #linux-wireless IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Both devices are USB
>> but differ greatly, please visit the ar5523 page [2] and the ar9271
>> page [3] for further device specifics and more information.
>>
>> The model of development for ar9271 device support is rather new -- we
>> are not targeting staging, instead we target using the strength of
>> community development at an extremely early stage, as early as is
>> possible, even before the device is functional. If we get a device
>> driver functional prior to meeting upstream requirements then so be it
>> -- and the driver does gets stuffed into drivers/staging. End goal is
>> to get it into proper drivers/net/wireless/ but obviously it will not
>> hurt to get users some device functionality prior to that.
>>
>> The time of turnaround to getting users supported either through
>> drivers/staging or drivers/net/wireless/ will ultimately depend on the
>> resources dedicated to it. Right now I know only Stefan
>> Lippers-Hollmann is working on ar5523 support and I'm the only one
>> working on ar9271 support. With your help I am in hopes this will
>> change soon.
>>
>> [1] http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
>> [2] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>> [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523
>> [4] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9271
>>
>> Luis
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>>
>
> About ar9271: is this device already in the market, or the chip itself
> is also still in development?
Some vendors are selling it, I however do not know the name or have
any URL for it.
Luis
On Friday 04 September 2009 01:34:19 G?bor Stefanik wrote:
>
> About ar9271: is this device already in the market, or the chip itself
> is also still in development?
>
yes, ar9271 devices are available in Europe.
(e.g: TP-Link TL-WN721N (about 12 euros))
Regards,
Chr
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
fixed for 2.6.31 ?
Thanks,
Xav
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Joe Perches<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>
> Perhaps add this to MAINTAINERS?
Fine by me, except ath5k and ath9k also have their own respective page
so those can also be added.
Luis
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8dca9d8..de922cd 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -876,6 +876,7 @@ M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
> M: Bob Copeland <[email protected]>
> L: [email protected]
> L: [email protected]
> +W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
> S: Maintained
> F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/
>
> @@ -887,12 +888,14 @@ M: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <[email protected]>
> M: Senthil Balasubramanian <[email protected]>
> L: [email protected]
> L: [email protected]
> +W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
> S: Supported
> F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/
>
> ATHEROS AR9170 WIRELESS DRIVER
> M: Christian Lamparter <[email protected]>
> L: [email protected]
> +W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
> W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
> S: Maintained
> F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/
>
>
>
>
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
Perhaps add this to MAINTAINERS?
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8dca9d8..de922cd 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -876,6 +876,7 @@ M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
M: Bob Copeland <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
+W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/
@@ -887,12 +888,14 @@ M: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <[email protected]>
M: Senthil Balasubramanian <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
+W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
S: Supported
F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/
ATHEROS AR9170 WIRELESS DRIVER
M: Christian Lamparter <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
+W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/
Le vendredi 04 septembre 2009 ? 09:51 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez a ?crit :
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Xavier Bestel<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:53 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> > > I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
> >> > >
> >> > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
> >> >
> >> > ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
> >> > fixed for 2.6.31 ?
> >>
> >> The above page makes no such statements. I have fixed
> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
> >
> > Right, thanks.
> >
> >> https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint still needs a
> >> lot of work, or maybe it should be removed as obsolete.
> >
> > Yes, I miss access-point functionality in NetworkManager :)
>
> BTW a GSoC project this year was to add AP support to Network Manager.
> As far I can tell the Witold Sowa finished this so you should be able
> to test this.
Awesome.
> Witold, can you update the wiki page on this project with details as
> to how people can test this?
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager
>
> Luis
>
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:50:46AM +0400, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> Good time of day.
> Do I need to use wireless-testing tree ?
For what goal? Generally speaking, no you do
not need to use wireless-testing, unless you wish
to test or contribute, in which cases the answer
is "yes."
-Bob
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 12:26 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Joe Perches<[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
> > Perhaps add this to MAINTAINERS?
> Fine by me, except ath5k and ath9k also have their own respective page
> so those can also be added.
(cc's trimmed and maintainers added)
Perhaps this instead:
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8dca9d8..b0ef9c7 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -876,6 +876,7 @@ M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
M: Bob Copeland <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
+W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/
@@ -887,6 +888,7 @@ M: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <[email protected]>
M: Senthil Balasubramanian <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
+W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
S: Supported
F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>
> To get updates just subscribe to the wiki. There you will find
> information regarding any old legacy Atheros driver and any proper
> upstream driver.
>
> I'd like to also take the time to announce two devices for which
> support is currently being developed for: ar5523 and ar9271. Both
> ar5523 and ar9271 device support is currently being worked on either
> by the community or by Atheros itself. Both of these driver projects
> will be using th Linux driver project [1] to gain traction. Patches
> and development discussions regarding these two drivers prior to
> getting upstream into drivers/net/wireless/ will take place on the
> Linux driver project mailing list [2]. For direct one-on-one
> communication for support and development we will rely on the
> #linux-wireless IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Both devices are USB
> but differ greatly, please visit the ar5523 page [2] and the ar9271
> page [3] for further device specifics and more information.
>
> The model of development for ar9271 device support is rather new -- we
> are not targeting staging, instead we target using the strength of
> community development at an extremely early stage, as early as is
> possible, even before the device is functional. If we get a device
> driver functional prior to meeting upstream requirements then so be it
> -- and the driver does gets stuffed into drivers/staging. End goal is
> to get it into proper drivers/net/wireless/ but obviously it will not
> hurt to get users some device functionality prior to that.
>
> The time of turnaround to getting users supported either through
> drivers/staging or drivers/net/wireless/ will ultimately depend on the
> resources dedicated to it. Right now I know only Stefan
> Lippers-Hollmann is working on ar5523 support and I'm the only one
> working on ar9271 support. With your help I am in hopes this will
> change soon.
>
> [1] http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
> [2] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
> [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523
> [4] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9271
>
> ?Luis
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> the body of a message to [email protected]
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>
About ar9271: is this device already in the market, or the chip itself
is also still in development?
--
Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:53 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
> > >
> > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
> >
> > ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
> > fixed for 2.6.31 ?
>
> The above page makes no such statements. I have fixed
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
Right, thanks.
> https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint still needs a
> lot of work, or maybe it should be removed as obsolete.
Yes, I miss access-point functionality in NetworkManager :)
Xav
2009/9/3 Christian Lamparter <[email protected]>:
> On Friday 04 September 2009 01:34:19 Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>
>> About ar9271: is this device already in the market, or the chip itself
>> is also still in development?
>>
> yes, ar9271 devices are available in Europe.
> (e.g: TP-Link TL-WN721N (about 12 euros))
Thanks I've added this to the wiki on a new supported products page --
if others are aware of other devices please feel free to add them
there.
Luis
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Xavier Bestel<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:53 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > > I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>> > >
>> > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>> >
>> > ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
>> > fixed for 2.6.31 ?
>>
>> The above page makes no such statements. I have fixed
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
>
> Right, thanks.
>
>> https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint still needs a
>> lot of work, or maybe it should be removed as obsolete.
>
> Yes, I miss access-point functionality in NetworkManager :)
BTW a GSoC project this year was to add AP support to Network Manager.
As far I can tell the Witold Sowa finished this so you should be able
to test this.
Witold, can you update the wiki page on this project with details as
to how people can test this?
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager
Luis
Good time of day.
Do I need to use wireless-testing tree ?
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, michael<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
>>
>> Le vendredi 04 septembre 2009 ? 09:51 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez a ?crit :
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Xavier Bestel<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:53 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless
>>>>>>> drivers:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
>>>>>> fixed for 2.6.31 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> The above page makes no such statements. I have fixed
>>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
>>>>
>>>> Right, thanks.
>>>>
>>>>> https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint still needs
>>>>> a
>>>>> lot of work, or maybe it should be removed as obsolete.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I miss access-point functionality in NetworkManager :)
>>>
>>> BTW a GSoC project this year was to add AP support to Network Manager.
>>> As far I can tell the Witold Sowa finished this so you should be able
>>> to test this.
>>
>> Awesome.
>>
>>> Witold, can you update the wiki page on this project with details as
>>> to how people can test this?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager
>>>
>>> Luis
>>>
>
> Is there any plan to support the ar6k athereos wifi card?
>
> Michael
>
>>
>>
>>
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Hi,
Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le vendredi 04 septembre 2009 ? 09:51 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez a ?crit :
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Xavier Bestel<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:53 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>>>> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>>>>> ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
>>>>> fixed for 2.6.31 ?
>>>> The above page makes no such statements. I have fixed
>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
>>> Right, thanks.
>>>
>>>> https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint still needs a
>>>> lot of work, or maybe it should be removed as obsolete.
>>> Yes, I miss access-point functionality in NetworkManager :)
>> BTW a GSoC project this year was to add AP support to Network Manager.
>> As far I can tell the Witold Sowa finished this so you should be able
>> to test this.
>
> Awesome.
>
>> Witold, can you update the wiki page on this project with details as
>> to how people can test this?
>>
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager
>>
>> Luis
>>
Is there any plan to support the ar6k athereos wifi card?
Michael
>
>
>
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>
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Joe Perches<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 12:26 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Joe Perches<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>> > Perhaps add this to MAINTAINERS?
>> Fine by me, except ath5k and ath9k also have their own respective page
>> so those can also be added.
>
> (cc's trimmed and maintainers added)
>
> Perhaps this instead:
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez
think you have to send this to John.
Luis
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:53 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
> >
> > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>
> ath5k is marked as not master-mode capable. I thought this had been
> fixed for 2.6.31 ?
The above page makes no such statements. I have fixed
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint still needs a
lot of work, or maybe it should be removed as obsolete.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin