On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 03:37 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > > So, I'm trying to understand the current state of the ar9170 and otus > > drivers so that I may know where to direction some effort. I'd like to > > get an WN111v2 running with 11n support, and am willing to start with > > either the ar9170 or otus drivers as needed. But I've not been following > > along in too much detail so far. > > well, otus is a dead end. However it does fully support all 11n features the > device has to offer. But you'll need a special and very old wpa_supplicant. > (see otus' driver page on wireless.kernel.org where to get it.) OK, got it, thanks. > ar9170 - on the other hand - is only capable of receiving 11n frames. > ( that said, enabling it makes the device unstable and therefore one can > only _sniff_ 11n frames coming from other stations for now. ) Ewww.... So, does the ar9170 fully handle b/g as a station at least? > > Advice on where I should start, what's working, what's not working, > > what needs help, etc? > a lot! first and foremost needed is the _final_ 802.11n specification, > which sadly will still take a while... (2010? I think at least...) > it's a really mess now... Heh. But I'm not going to be able to help that much... :-) > As other devices/firmwares are usually designed > after a different revision of the drafts which makes it complicated. > This is no joke and the original otus incorporates "workarounds" for all > 11n vendors (including Atheros itself) to get it going. > ( else, the performance can be worse than 802.11b ) Is the in-tree Otus up-to-date with all of these workarounds? > > And should I start with one of the linville Git trees? Or wireless-everything? > > linville's wireless-testing is where we put the most recent code. Excellent. > Regards, > Chr Thanks, jdl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
