As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Luis
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Thanks a lot for this !!!
Can't wait to get my hands dirty ;-)
I 'll start merging stuff on ath5k asap !!!
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Nick
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Great news. Thanks a lot for your amazing work at atheros, Luis!
I hope that other companies *cough* reconsider moving towards this
direction, too.
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Greetings Michael.
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MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
merged as part of the Linux kernel.
Luis
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Awesome...simply, awesome!
I hereby nominate Atheros for this year's "Most Improved Open Source
Corporate Citizen" award! :-)
Great job, Luis!
John
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linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.
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Luis _has_ done a great job. Having dealt with Atheros in another life,
I can appreciate the mountains he's moved.
I would also offer my appreciation to those unnamed, enlightened
individuals within Atheros that made this possible. Nothing would please
me more then to be able to drop the madwifi HAL in favor of full support
from ath5k.
rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
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Hi.
It's not particularly on-topic here, so just a short note: #ath9k should
not be invite-only (but I will check again). It forwards to #madwifi,
which is used for discussion about MadWifi, ath5k and ath9k.
Bye, Mike
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Luis,
A huge vote of thanks and congratulations are due to Atheros for
taking the step of releasing the HAL. There will be many in the open
source community celebrating this move.
Much Kudos is due to Atheros for taking this step.
The ath5k community is going to benefit hugely from being able to optimise
the driver based on a more accurate knowledge of the workings of the HAL.
Patches like
https://lists.ath5k.org/pipermail/ath5k-devel/2008-September/001311.html
will improve the reliability, and are only possible because of the release
of the HAL.
Thanks are due to Luis also, for taking his part in getting the HAL
released.
Perhaps we can all now work together on getting a stable driver for
Atheros cards under Linux. - Ath5k or Ath9k (don't care which).
Derek.
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Email: derek@indranet.co.nz
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Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
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