Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f228.google.com ([209.85.218.228]:36952 "EHLO mail-bw0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713AbZGVKsM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:48:12 -0400 Received: by bwz28 with SMTP id 28so94468bwz.37 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:48:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <43e72e890907211209p5142047cjf821bc536c012f24@mail.gmail.com> <20090721210422.GA24285@lst.de> <43e72e890907211424j2c1eecdauf1d8279baec0f6f9@mail.gmail.com> <20090721214219.GA25392@lst.de> <43e72e890907211703y72ffe8cdv88ba9e3c59d1b76@mail.gmail.com> <928354.18240.qm@web56107.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <43e72e890907211804i1e1fa166y810caa95563bc695@mail.gmail.com> <4A66A482.6050401@erley.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:48:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3ace41890907220348i367a2b02had02f05af3ab3d4f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB From: Hin-Tak Leung To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Kamil Dzida wrote: > Pat Erley writes: > >> >> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Purushotham >> > Nayak 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 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@... >> More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> > > 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 I like to see the spec, even though I don't have a device (yet). Hin-Tak