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Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB

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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Kamil Dzida<kamil.dzida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pat Erley <pat-lkml@...> writes:
>
>>
>> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Purushotham
>> > Nayak<nayak_purushotham@...> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm interested in working on this. I just posted to the Linux driver
> project a few days ago if I could work on
>> the atheros USB devices. Please let me also know the USB device that uses the
> AR5523.
>> >
>> > Dan recently purchased one of these devices. Dan any pointers?
>>
>> I have a few WPN111 Refurbed devices that are AR5523 based.  Apparently
>> there is a WPN111v2 that may or may not be otus supported, I can't confirm
>> that.  Based on pictures from google and the devices I own, the AR5523 ones
>> are silver, and the Otus ones are white.  I'd be more than happy to test and
>> do what I can to try to help, but my time is limited, so I'm not up for
>> taking the task onto my shoulders right now.
>>
>> Pat
>>
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>
> It seems that OpenBSD has driver for AR5523 (AR5005UG and AR5005UX) upstream. I
> doubt that they would like to share their code with Linux - like dual licensing
> GPL/BSD. Fortunately their documentation mentions which hardware includes those
> chipsets, look here:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uath&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386
>
>
> Note that Atheros AR5007UG (alternatively known as AR2524/AR5524) is supported
> by Linux zd1211rw driver.
>
> Kamil

I like to see the spec, even though I don't have a device (yet).

Hin-Tak
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