Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:56:51 +0100 (CET) | Subject | Re: [Madwifi-devel] ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assess ar5k (enabling free Atheros HAL) | From | "Michael Renzmann" <> |
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Hi.
> At least, this way we have a chance to get USB working as well (See > http://madwifi.org/ticket/33).
It's not the HAL that prevents MadWifi implementing USB support. Replacing the binary-only HAL with OpenHAL and/or dissolving the HAL functionality in the driver source does not get us any closer to a working support of USB sticks.
Quoting Sam Leffler on that topic:
=== cut === The Atheros-based USB devices work rather differently from the cardbus/pci cards. In particular there is no hal; instead there's an onboard processor that runs the hal and implements a special protocol. This means you can reuse some of madwifi but you also (probably) need to redo the code some to break out different interfaces. It's not a simple project. === cut ===
see: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/5380
> OpenBSD seems to have a working driver (if_uath.c) for these USB WLAN > sticks.
Which, at least for some sticks, requires a not freely distributable binary firmware blob, by the way (see: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/cvs/2006-09/0233.html ). Nevertheless, it would be nice to have that driver ported to Linux.
Bye, Mike
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