Some time ago I found an old USB wireless dongle in my drawer. I was surprised it wasn't supported in Linux. Google gave me an old unfinished driver created by Christoph Hellwig. Armed with some spare time and naivity I picked up where Christoph left in 2007 and now it's actually working pretty fine. It does not crash for me and throughput is decent. It's based on the FreeBSD driver, which in turn is based on the reverse engineered Windows driver, hence a very limited feature set. Not even HW crypto offload is supported. But at least there is a firmware which has a suitable license: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/uath/ar5523.bin.uu Pontus Fuchs (4): ar5523: Add main driver file ar5523: Add driver header file ar5523: Add Firmware API header file ar5523: Add Kconfig and Makefile drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile | 1 + drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c | 1824 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h | 164 ++++ drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h | 447 +++++++++ 7 files changed, 2446 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h -- 1.7.9.5 -- 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
