Re: Atheros 9271

2015-03-30 Thread Joseph Moses
is there any update on this wifi driver support? i just got one to try and make pfSense a Access Point. but it does not show up - 3rd usb wifi antena i have tried. Joseph ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Adrian Chadd: > I just don't want to be on the hook for supporting the USB side of things. > I've been slowly writing an AR9170 USB driver. I am still having > issues getting all of the USB stuff stable and bulletproof. The > existing USB drivers for wifi aren't really paragons of vi

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
I just don't want to be on the hook for supporting the USB side of things. I've been slowly writing an AR9170 USB driver. I am still having issues getting all of the USB stuff stable and bulletproof. The existing USB drivers for wifi aren't really paragons of virtue from a driver perspective. -

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Adrian Chadd: > THe bit(s) i don't want to really make work mostly involve the USB > stuff. So, if you grab the USB drivers in sys/dev/usb/wlan/ and look > at the netbsd/openbsd athn usb code, that right there is what would be > good to start with. > So, if you or someone could port

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, THe bit(s) i don't want to really make work mostly involve the USB stuff. So, if you grab the USB drivers in sys/dev/usb/wlan/ and look at the netbsd/openbsd athn usb code, that right there is what would be good to start with. So, if you or someone could port the initial USB glue - attach, de

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-12-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
> You should buy a cheap one for now, until someone writes the > AR7010/AR9271 driver. > -adrian >From your wiki site on wiki.freebsd.org, Chipsets I won't be working on USB chipsets, in particular the AR7010+AR9280, AR9271 or the AR9170 chipset although if someone would lik

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-11-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! Ok, so the rundown on the USB stuff. The athn (openbsd/netbsd) and ath9k_htc (linux) NICs are little USB things that have a normal (yes, normal) atheros chip in them. There's three main flavours: * AR7010 + AR9280 * AR7010 + AR9287 * AR9271 Now, the AR7010 is a little CPU with memory, flas

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
> THere are a bunch of supported 11n NICS in -HEAD and -10. > You should buy a cheap one for now, until someone writes the > AR7010/AR9271 driver. > -adrian How do I find which 11n NICs are supported, or USB wireless adapters? It's very difficult to find in advance what the chi

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-11-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
THere are a bunch of supported 11n NICS in -HEAD and -10. You should buy a cheap one for now, until someone writes the AR7010/AR9271 driver. -adrian On 19 November 2013 14:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Jonas Liepuonius : > >> So I have been thinking about starting driver development in Fr

Re: Atheros 9271

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Jonas Liepuonius : > So I have been thinking about starting driver development in FreeBSD. So I > thought about porting some drivers from linux as a starting point. It will > mainly be for the Atheros 9271 USB chip. So any comments or ideas or tips > are welcome :) > -- > Pagarbiai, > Jonas