Atheros AR5B22 WLAN+Bluetooth support on FreeBSD

[Adrian Chadd]

it's a userland program. :-) All ath3k in linux does is detect the hardware
and squeeze firmware into it. That's literally it.


-adrian

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 21:48, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día domingo, abril 14, 2019 a las 09:42:46a. m. -0700, Adrian Chadd
> escribió:
>
> > no, it's the userland ath3kfw tool from my git (github.com/erikarn/ath3k
> )
> >
> > Those NICs need firmware/config squirted onto them after ath(4) loads and
> > sets up the btcoex.
> >
> >
>
> I git cloned it and built it, but this does not give any kernel module
> to load:
>
> $ ls -ltr
> total 208
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel    164 15 abr.  06:27 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel   1828 15 abr.  06:27 ath3k_dbg.h
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel   2857 15 abr.  06:27 ath3k_fw.c
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel   2066 15 abr.  06:27 ath3k_fw.h
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel   7928 15 abr.  06:27 ath3k_hw.c
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel   2641 15 abr.  06:27 ath3k_hw.h
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel  10183 15 abr.  06:27 main.c
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel  21856 15 abr.  06:29 main.o
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel   9824 15 abr.  06:29 ath3k_fw.o
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel  18592 15 abr.  06:29 ath3k_hw.o
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 guru  wheel  52096 15 abr.  06:29 ath3kfw.full
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 guru  wheel  31312 15 abr.  06:29 ath3kfw.debug
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 guru  wheel  27648 15 abr.  06:29 ath3kfw
> $ ./ath3kfw
> Usage: ath3kfw (-D) -d ugenX.Y (-f firmware path) (-I)
>     -D: enable debugging
>     -d: device to operate upon
>     -f: firmware path, if not default
>     -I: enable informational output
>
> What next? Will it brick my Wifi chip? I need this C720 for work. :-)
>
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