Return-path: Received: from web56107.mail.re3.yahoo.com ([216.252.110.201]:22672 "HELO web56107.mail.re3.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753906AbZGVBKR (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:10:17 -0400 Message-ID: <928354.18240.qm@web56107.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <43e72e890907211209p5142047cjf821bc536c012f24@mail.gmail.com> <20090721210422.GA24285@lst.de> <43e72e890907211424j2c1eecdauf1d8279baec0f6f9@mail.gmail.com> <20090721214219.GA25392@lst.de> <43e72e890907211703y72ffe8cdv88ba9e3c59d1b76@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:03:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Purushotham Nayak Subject: Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Christoph Hellwig , linux-wireless Cc: Dan Williams In-Reply-To: <43e72e890907211703y72ffe8cdv88ba9e3c59d1b76@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Thanks, Purush ----- Original Message ---- From: Luis R. Rodriguez To: Christoph Hellwig ; linux-wireless ; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; Dan Williams ; ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org; madwifi-devel ; Jouni Malinen ; ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:03:36 PM Subject: Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:24:36PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> Hey Chris, was curious if you still had lying around the driver you >> >> had worked on for the old Atheros 802.11 USB device. Dan asked about >> >> it, seems he bought one. We at least now have specs for it and can >> >> provide them to interested developers. Since Dan brought this device >> >> up figured I'd check to see if you still had it to see if you still >> >> had the code and might be willing to let someone try to give a shot at >> >> finishing it up for inclusion. Perhaps staging? >> > >> > The code has been at http://verein.lst.de/~hch/ar5523.tgz. >> >> Sweet. How functional is this? Does it TX/RX? > > It's been quite some time. IIRC it does TX, but can't actually see > any packets on RX (filter issue or something). Sorry for the large cross post, just seeing if someone is interested in working on a wireless driver. The task would be to try to get AR5523 USB driver up to speed with mac80211 from wireless-testing and giving it a shot to fix remaining issues? It seems to have compiled last for 2.6.23. If you're interested please remove all lists and only leave linux-wireless on the reply. Luis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel