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ar9170
ar9170 is a GPL driver for the Atheros 802.11n USB chipset (AR9170).
See also otus, the driver which ar9170 is based on.
Contents
device driver
ar9170 will be part of the 2.6.31 kernel release but new updates (such as AVM Fritz support, and support for the one stage open source firmware) will be available until 2.6.32. You can however get the latest ar9170 driver, as targeted in the wireless-testing development tree by using git to get wireless-testing directly or by using the compat-wireless tarball which will get you only the wireless drivers.
open firmware
Firmware is open! Go check the ar9170.fw page.
device firmware
Included in the firmware tree.
firmware checksums |
|
filename |
md5sum |
ar9170-1.fw |
bebf8de7bf0aa8ae3eb395cc6be2e762 |
ar9170-2.fw |
33ae4899340c75be4bc80c34fbe5d171 |
available devices
features
- 802.11abgn/bgn (depending on hardware)
- 1 or 2 spatial streams for 802.11n (depending on hardware)
working
- 802.11 a/b/g
- Ad-hoc, monitor and station mode
- Cryptographic accelerator in station mode
- SoftLEDs
not working yet
- Cryptographic accelerator in Ad-hoc mode
- Adaptive Noise Immunity
- 802.11n/HT
- Lots of other things
not supported
- AP mode (haven't found a way to properly transmit multicast frames after DTIM)
Sharing code between drivers
ar9170 makes use of ath.ko module for help with regulatory.