Any work being done on ath9k/athn WiFi support?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 9 16:02:00 UTC 2010


On 3 July 2010 08:27, Ryan Stone <rysto32 at gmail.com> 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.  Some googling has seemed
> to indicate that there is a driver in OpenBSD(athn) that supports this
> family of cards.  I was wondering if there was any work underway to
> port this to FreeBSD.  I'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


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