From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 23:27:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4164A1065670 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:27:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138C08FC0A for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcwz17 with SMTP id wz17so2850509pbc.13 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:27:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ca9owHJA4NQ3XybrbaHgV6jqssXYaOxnZX7K1umx0HM=; b=a2COqigcMV1i3BYFs5XBqJ9pm2HiMoz+xbuYSyDH7/mmIa5s5s0i4RKfXDjcMotipY Y0AbhMXmLfcKO9f2JbNoAedOFpOjz2nt+PkFlO3jEAERSQJ23Xnr+jcsXmIX6i1b7AKT Vqzty+k0fnX+camB1eZNlmCmOeDbArxo6zX8jUnTr7/ov+X6ZlKlWtpIgZ6mXrfEpksJ ODsxHu9TyqjJpiNf9KwmOjnoShaMICYfnKlBsXVATqgc5zL13e9X+ju3VROcx1YnZ4mt yhtwnDVSwNJjbRQB/4GAAsIUUM1jaUuCO5JExsD5AaJEzdF1IBhuNfHM71efuhmasJIb EiZw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.202.195 with SMTP id kk3mr492379pbc.96.1332977235873; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.143.33.5 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:27:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F73758D.3040000@brandonfa.lk> References: <942975b7-aa54-416d-b049-a50563bbf2a7@email.android.com> <4F73758D.3040000@brandonfa.lk> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:27:15 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: HT-ZNg9aZWYqueUQ5mqu7R4-dKk Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Brandon Falk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Chris.H" Subject: Re: Reverse engineering; How to... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:27:16 -0000 Hi, If there's a linux/netbsd/openbsd driver then you could work with us to port them. We in the wireless stack hacker group are sorely lacking developers working on the chipsets that are out there. OpenBSD tends to have a bunch of wireless drivers that Damien has either ported or reimplemented from various (Linux) upstreams, so you could use that as a basis for future work. If someone has the following hardware AND can actually actively work on helping me port support from OpenBSD/Linux to FreeBSD, please drop me a line ASAP: (These are all USB) * AR9170 series NICs (Linux - carl9170, OpenBSD: ar9170) * AR7010 CPU + (AR9280, AR9285, AR9287) NICs (Linux, ath9k_htc, OpenBSD: athn) * AR9271 CPU+Wifi NIC (ath9k_htc/athn) I've got documentation and reference hardware here, so I can assist in helping debug and add 802.11n support. I just have no time to do all the initial USB bring up of these things. If in doubt, jump on freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org and start talking. :) Adrian