Subject: Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:22:23 +0300
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On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 12:04 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce we have released the source code to our
> Atheros 802.11n USB Otus/ar9170 device under the GPL. You can grab the
> source, compile and use it with the upstream ar9170 device driver.
> Patches are welcomed. The git tree available for this is at:
> 
> http://git.sipsolutions.net/ar9170-fw.git
> 
> For more information please visit the home page for this project is on
> our Linux wireless wiki:
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw
> 
> The ar9170 device driver home page is at:
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
> 
> I'd like to thank Johannes Berg and Christian Lamparter for their
> incredible contributions to the project both firmware and ar9170
> driver so far without which this would not have been possible.

I just want to say thanks!

I will buy this device very soon.
Is this source for same firmware that was closed?
Will AP mode work in future?

If you were to release the documentation, then it would be really
possible to fix AP mode for this firmware.


If you could just release ath5k documentation.... I would fix its
numerous problems I have with my aspire one (AR2425)...


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky