From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 16:02:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0BD1065670 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621F48FC15 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so2881124iwn.13 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:01:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KZLunIz2ZrfPLw5gi+KfOm0i+DqDdKYswI4h3o807nA=; b=RTJ1HMaWV0h3WG5+sgxmTnhoDHeckr68kJylc//m+4Po2o5LOV/jZyu6kaPKBJtD7D mz9xXFPd9e95DRxsuRcOXV10HK0Cb2VWvCMEdyDOp/i2SkwSz4uKoFwv7EEdj+Sjack/ /8BesJNZVykURxuSPiXinIASzIThMDpf0Hy1o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=vMSwzTklZAu3o7SwZ/dOfgC4KtXuF0pW7n3wW1FPyoO4Te+DZQCB8aUxbLcIt8XieQ 7j0R0ObAPk+0XQlGVUuXcGgf/82XntNklc8BvX90sHU0sMTMuS5hv0RfxoAcppfn1jS+ xrOpgBWQKVM/D6bmpr/kjesmTRGK2tNNEEV8Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.3.81 with SMTP id 17mr3195311icn.73.1278691319667; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.152.3 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:01:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:01:59 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9dbmDbJU-_tM8ha6e-qM7uDiPsE Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Ryan Stone Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any work being done on ath9k/athn WiFi support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:02:00 -0000 On 3 July 2010 08:27, Ryan Stone wrote: > I just bought a laptop with a Atheros AR9XXX and as far as I can tell > there is no driver support yet in FreeBSD. =A0Some googling has seemed > to indicate that there is a driver in OpenBSD(athn) that supports this > family of cards. =A0I was wondering if there was any work underway to > port this to FreeBSD. =A0I'm willing to help out in any way possible. > If I can find the time I'm willing to work on the port itself. > > Any information about the current state of athn would be helpful. I'm currently trying to use an ar9160 based card but the code in -head is buggy (at least when using it on MIPS.) I've started looking at the feasibility of merging in some of the changes from Linux/ath9k. Does the openbsd athn code support hostap/vap mode? Adrian