From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 17 15:41:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C2B28CE for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qe0-x22c.google.com (mail-qe0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BFCD1020 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f44.google.com with SMTP id nd7so5386293qeb.31 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:41:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ya8uvAs6CZm7NxRSda+/ecIY9fRcC5hofUfDQqnyX+s=; b=CrWirRAM5/IHqgzDJpVrJjF53FsDXGxBw6GxbWhxSY9gZ4D2L60Wnc8j1pwk1YKeoc otVV8d8lpdrO3wSe4WKqk+BIbuHkwYDgSwFwGJ47qwsmM9Lhmks6IP4a55oa23fWfL3G swWDASimK6UkvPomNDVETe1l2/YXmgLuj2BqJmn40QDEc8ZbXCnHPrMI8N/WnDuz25yg auhDsMkKSdUcgaesQSHSFVJ6IyEjZTi+D+es7cR9q0NPp/8st13TOQWNquqzHh4hpnXI AzIK1I7wQfhc4r8fzflclaoI52IVNX9fUbNix7KeXnIBpFGO/BWAwgGTOXSwWP49hyuR QaOw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.129.38 with SMTP id nt6mr44239615qeb.78.1387294870250; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:41:10 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.53.200 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:41:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <597989.6329.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <597989.6329.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:41:09 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0QWzBdhfzpM6ZSZjxqwN3KP5tkc Message-ID: Subject: Re: Atheros 9271 From: Adrian Chadd To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:41:11 -0000 Hi, THe bit(s) i don't want to really make work mostly involve the USB stuff. So, if you grab the USB drivers in sys/dev/usb/wlan/ and look at the netbsd/openbsd athn usb code, that right there is what would be good to start with. So, if you or someone could port the initial USB glue - attach, detach, upload firmware, send commands, receive commands - that'll be a big help. -a On 17 December 2013 02:39, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> You should buy a cheap one for now, until someone writes the >> AR7010/AR9271 driver. > >> -adrian > > From your wiki site on wiki.freebsd.org, > > Chipsets I won't be working on > > USB chipsets, in particular the AR7010+AR9280, AR9271 or the AR9170 chipset > although if someone would like to work on these, I'll be happy to help them with it > > I've offered to help, but dang, no answer. > > Question is where I should start. I have programmed with C and i386 assembler but nothing as complex as a device driver. > > I have FreeBSD and NetBSD-current source trees and can compare the athn and other wireless driver parts as well as device re. > > I could also download Linux kernel sources. > > Tom >