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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:03:14 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Atheros (madwifi/ath5k) virtual STA support
From: "Michael Renzmann" <mrenzmann@madwifi-project.org>
To: "Catalin Patulea" <cat@vv.carleton.ca>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Hi.

Catalin Patulea wrote:
> Also, I was under the impression that ath9k is only meant for
> 802.11n chipsets (as opposed to abg), and therefore that AR5414 would
> not be supported. What am I missing?

ath9k is for Atheros' 11n chipsets, that's true. However, if Luis says
that they are working on such a feature for ath9k, one can expect that
this work will include patches for mac80211 which then other drivers can
rely on to implement a similar feature.

Bye, Mike