Hi Andy, On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:30:44PM +0000, Andy Green wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > Hi, > > > > Some quick update about our GTA02 wifi driver... > > Over the past weeks, we've been working to support the latest 2.0.x.x > > firmwares from Atheros and to stabilize this code. > > After messing with pretty nasty bugs, here is the current status: > > > > - We do support Atheros 2.0.x.x firmwares. > > - Through the standard wext wpa_supplicant driver, we can establish > > open, WEP and WPA[12] links. > > - The driver has been going through many tests over all of the above > > mentioned networks, and it seems to run fine on each and everyone of > > them (SSH, HTTP, FTP and iperf tests). > > - Although not comparable with your desktop 802.11 performances, iperf > > tests give pretty good throughput results, the lowest one being a > > 7 Mbits/s for a TCP server iperf test. > > > > That's all for now, please let me know if you have further questions. > > Hi Sameo - > > Sounds great. > > - What's the situation for performing a firmware upgrade through the > driver? Not supported at the moment. The tools needed for that are in Atheros hands, and I think OpenMoko is trying to have them release those tools. Most likely those discussions involve legal issues, so I can't comment further on that matter. > - How about Monitor mode? > > - And packet injection? I'd have to look at those 2. For Monitor mode, I need to check if the firmware supports it. For packet injection, how is that done by other drivers ? Raw sockets, I guess, but probably some sort of firmware support as well, right ?
> BTW the locking BUG()s on boot are definitely gone here. Excellent :-) Cheers, Samuel. > - -Andy > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHqPGkOjLpvpq7dMoRAp2kAJ9P1tVOzbbnsHvPzkmUNn7C0uwoWgCcDAtZ > p3afFjN933VoEkzBS8YWf6Q= > =Bdb9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
