Subject: Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:06:31 +0200
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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:
>=20
> http://git.sipsolutions.net/ar9170-fw.git
>=20
> For more information please visit the home page for this project is on
> our Linux wireless wiki:
>=20
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw
>=20
> The ar9170 device driver home page is at:
>=20
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
>=20
> 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.

So, plan: I would like to add a command that tells us
   - it's open source firmware
   - what additional capabilities the firmware has
This has to be a command like the debug commands that we can send from
the firmware unilaterally. Easy to do.

What I would then like to add is at least proper tx status reporting. I
would also like to get rid of the key limitation, if possible.

johannes

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