ath: is here full list of supported chipsets and chipsets comparsion?

[Wes Morgan]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Sam Leffler wrote:

> Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>> Hello, All.
>>
>>   `man ath' on FreeBSD 7.1-PRE speaks only about WPA2 in AR5212 and
>> not-supported AR5005VL. But in "current" cars here are many other
>> chipsets -- 5213A, 5414, etc... And Atheros site is not very helpful
>> now  -- there are not 5212, 5213A, 5414 chipsets in both areas "WLAN
>> for Home, Office and Metro Wi-Fi" and "WLAN for Mobile" (BTW, link to
>> http://customerproducts.atheros.com/ doesn't work anymore).
>>
>>   Is here full list of supported chipsets, and, maybe, some table with
>> chipsets features (AES, WPA2, AP mode, etc)?
>>
>> 
> HEAD supports most PCI/cardbus parts.  The main exceptions are the 9280 and 
> 9285.  The ath9k driver for linux supports them and anyone can add support 
> using that.  11n parts only support legacy operation though w/ ~10 line 
> change to the driver you can get 11n RX + legacy TX.
>
> RELENG_7 has a much older hal and lacks support for many cards.  I recommend 
> using HEAD if wireless support is important to you.  No ETA on an update by 
> me--others are welcome to supply the changes.
>
> All ath cards support all features you listed (except for the 5210 which 
> you're unlikely to care about).

Sam,

I just updated my system from -stable to -current this weekend, and I'm 
noticing a lot more issues with the ath driver losing its association much 
more frequently, sometimes failing to reassociate altogether. The strange 
part is that tcpdump shows packets being received from the network just 
fine, but nothing seems to be transmitted (although I have not stepped 
over to my file server to verify this). A manual unload / reload of the 
module "solves" the problem, but I get a warning about a memory leak.

Code-wise, the only difference since the "open sourcing" is simply that we 
now have the code, correct?