Douglas Atique ??: > Hi Lin, > > For various reasons I decided not to go back to previous versions. My > only chance is that ath will support adhoc in a future build. However, > you didn't comment on an updated version of ath supporting adhoc wifi. > Any chances? Is it in the plans or should I look forward to my next > notebook without atheros wifi? Can you recommend a wifi adapter that > is fully supported? Hi Douglas,
Currently there is no plan to add adhoc support for atheros driver in ON, i'll update ath-0.7.3 in opensolaris.org so that it can work on onnv-105 and post versions. BTW, iwk maybe an another choice which can fully support adhoc, and it's the only driver in ON which can support adhoc mode now. Br, Lin > > Cheers, > Doug > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Wang Lin <Wang.Lin at sun.com > <mailto:Wang.Lin at sun.com>> wrote: > > Douglas Atique ??: > > Hi again Lin, > > I have just installed snv_110 and adhoc support still looks > unimplemented. Do you have any news about this? > The new ath-0.7.x supporting adhoc and crossbow hasn't made it > to the downloads page yet, has it? > Is any development going on with ath right now? > > Best regards, > Douglas > > Hi Douglas, > > Adhoc has been supported by ath-0.7.3, but due to the change of > dladm and crossbow, it can not work on snv_105 and post version. > > Current ath driver shipped with opensolaris is originated from > ath-0.7.3 but without adhoc support, so if you want to use atheros > card in adhoc mode, you have > no other choice but usthing ath-0.7.3 in opensolaris.org > <http://opensolaris.org> , and please make sure youe solaris > version is under 105. > > Br, > > Lin > > > Douglas Atique ??: > > Hi Lin, > > The 0.7x version that can be downloaded from the > > site seems to have more features, but the version > shipped with SXCE has the most recent HAL. > > Just to clarify, are there 2 different branches of > > ath development? Are they going to be merged? > > > In general newly developed driver will be released in > opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> firstly, and then > putback into code tree; now > ath-0.7.3 has beem merged into build103, there > is almost no difference with the two drivers, except > the adhoc mode, which can only be supported by ath-0.7.3. > > Is there any roadmap on the site for features to be > > introduced in the shipped version? > > > Adhoc support in net80211 side is undergoing > development, shipped version can not support adhoc mode > before it > complete. > > Can I still use ath v0.7.3 in snv_104 and beyond to > > get adhoc support? > > > snv_104 is ok, for past version, minor changes need > to be added because of crossbow putback, i'll update it in > near future. > > Additionally, in snv_104 net80211 is referenced > > both in SUNWckr and SUNWatheros. Shouldn't net80211 > get its own package? > net80211 is a kernel module, referenced by other > modules such as ath, iwk and so on. > > Br, > > Lin > > >
