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 Changes v1 to v2: * Place driver in drivers/net/wireless/ath instead of staging. * Change to same license as ath9k as suggested by Luis. * Add comment about shutting up errors on USB disconnect. * Use ALIGN() / IS_ALIGNED() for alignment fix / check. * Fix whitespace on file ending. * Bugfix: Avoid % 512 transfer sizes on TX as the FW will hang. * Bugfix: Change filtering so that [mb]cast are properly RXed. Pontus Fuchs (4): ar5523: Add main driver file ar5523: Add driver header file Add Firmware API header file Add Kconfig and Makefile. Add MAINTAINERS entry MAINTAINERS | 6 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/Makefile | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/Makefile | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c | 1816 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.h | 155 +++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h | 434 +++++++ 8 files changed, 2421 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.h create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/ath/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
