net80211+atheros changes (updated)

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Mon Nov 15 09:32:55 PST 2004


On Monday 15 November 2004 08:53 am, Michael Lyngbøl wrote:
> On 11.11.2004 07:51:15 +0000, John Hay wrote:
> > > Let's try this again:
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/net80211+ath-20041015.tgz
> > >
> > > This applys cleanly to -current as of last night, builds, and boots.
> > > Beware of applying this over old patches as patch -N doesn't always
> > > seem to do the right thing with the new files.  I tested against a
> > > clean cvs co.
> >
> > For those interested, here is a patch so that one can use Sam's patches
> > on 5.3 too.
>
> Nice work! Sam's + John's patches works nicely on IBM T41 w/ 5.3-REL.
>
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xc0210000-0xc021ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:05:4e:4b:a8:aa
> ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio
> 2.3
> ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
> ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
> ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
> ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
>
> I'm able to use WEP which was broken before. I'll try TKIP and CCMP
> crypto support.
>
> Any chance of getting these changes committed?

No.  I have stated previously that I will not commit any of these changes to 
CVS until at least one other committer agrees to help with the fallout (to 
other wireless drivers).  In particular I need someone to take responsibility 
for the wi driver.

 Sam


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