On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 03:18:14 AM Prashant Badsheshi wrote: > We are planning to use the below wifi dongle as station and AP. > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter The chip AR9170 is getting on a bit. But ok. > We got the linux driver from the below path > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git > > We found the driver source in drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170. A (compiled) firmware is available from: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170 and the firmware source from: https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw > Our Question: > > Is the carl9170 driver present in the above folder is a complete open > source driver? The driver and firmware are GPLv2 code. > Also it would be great if there is any design document or programmer’s > document for the above mentioned Wifi dongle chipset available. Well, the original vendor firmware: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw and the original vendor driver: [ The most up-to-date version is available from the kernel git. Just revert "staging: remove the Atheros otus vendor driver" cff55f50b882b197a52c4cf0108a43c615d1fdba ] For more [HW design docs, register file, etc...] you need to talk to Qualcomm Atheros. But if there's an open issue/specific question I would be glad to help as well [or forward the request]. Regards, Chr -- 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
