Nick Kossifidis schrieb: >> I don't think ath5k has support for AR5007 chipsets so far. >> > > Indeed it hasn't, i've only fixed hw attach so far, even with some > dumps at hand it seems difficult right now to add support for any of > 5424/2424/2425 based cards (since we don't have any to test). > >>> What can I do to make this work? >> Not sure if it would be possible to apply the AR5007-patch we got from >> Atheros to the madwifi-trace branch... Nick, what do you think? Would that >> make sense, and/or would it help? >> > > It's possible, i've already done it and even got dumps with help from > Sergei Litvinenko who gave me access to his laptop ;-) Right now > 2413/2414 seems a much easier target (got scanning working already), > but for 5242/2424/2425 cards Atheros patch and madwifi is the only way > to go at the moment ;-(
We're desparately waiting for really free drivers for that chipset, because it's built into 100s of thousands of EEEpcs. As it happens, the madwifi drivers doesn't work quite as well as the Atheros driver provided by Atheros themselves in the default Xandros distribution that comes with the computer - you can't connect to certain distant APs using madwifi, but it works well with the Xandros non-standard drivers. Is there anything we can do to help development? Would it be helpful to raise the money for an EEEpc or two for the developers to play with? It really is a nice piece of hardware. Best, Paulus PS, please CC me as I'm not subscribed _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
