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 v2 to v3: * Replace homebrew workaround with USB_ZERO_PACKET. * Sort and clean up copyright holders. 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 | 1806 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.h | 152 +++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h | 431 +++++++ 8 files changed, 2405 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
