Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:55:53 -0700 | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver |
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 05:29:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > > <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:26:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > >> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:04:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > >> > > We would like to see our Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver upstream > > >> > > however we need help with this so we are releasing our Atheros 11n USB > > >> > > Otus Linux driver under the ISC to the community. The goal is to work > > >> > > with the community to help move this forward upstream. We are hoping > > >> > > for community help and leadership on this (*cough*). > > >> > > > >> > Yeah! > > >> > > > >> > I'll grab this and put it in drivers/staging/ so it gets some users and > > >> > more developers to help out with it. > > >> > > >> Ok, it seems to need some basic work to merely build properly on > > >> "modern" kernel versions. > > > > > > Yeah, it works up to 2.6.24. > > > > This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream" > > does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into > > staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless > > extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix, > > use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version > > of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have > > for staging at this point. > > Pretty much the only "bar" is "it compiles" :) > > > Will you take this in, and expect patches for fixing it to use > > standard wext and also report standard wireless statistic (yeap, this > > is not there yet either). > > Yes, I can do that.
Excellent, if no one send patches I guess I will.
> > Joey is one user which reported the driver working now with the > > compile fixes for newer kernels for 2.6.28-rc2 using the specific > > version of wpa_supplicant for it. > > > > Joey can you test the for-upstream branch on otus git? > > If someone can tell me what device this is for, I can try to go buy it > so that I can verify changes I make don't drasticly break things.
So we have a page for this now:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/otus
Init you can find a list of devices. Let me just paste what we have there now:
Dlink
* DWA-160A1
Netgear
* WNDA3100 * WN111v2
TP-Link
* TL-WN821N
AVM
* FRITZ!WLAN N USB Stick (USB ID 0x57c, 0x8401)
> I'll go try to get this tree into a buildable state and put it into > staging tonight.
Thanks! BTW if you add a kconfig option for it please point users with this info:
This driver requires its own supplicant driver for wpa_supplicant 0.4.8. For your convenience you can find the tarball here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/otus/wpa_supplicant-0.4.8_otus.tar.bz2
Before compiling wpa_supplicant, ensure your .config has atleast the following
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y CONFIG_EAP_WSC=y CONFIG_WSC_IE=y CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y CONFIG_DRIVER_OTUS=y
After a successful compile, you can use the device with wpa_supplicant as follows:
wpa_supplicant -Dotus -i <atheros device from ifconfig> -c /path/to/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
Luis
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