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ath9k_htc

ath9k_htc provides hardware support for Atheros AR9001 and AR9002 family hardware.

Get the driver

The driver is part of wireless-testing. See this guide to use the wireless-testing tree directly. Or you can use compat-wireless to get the driver.

Chipsets supported

  • AR9271
  • AR7010

Supported Devices

See the ath9k_htc device list.

Mailing list

https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Configuring your kernel

Enable these options in your kernel config.

CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC=m

Firmware

This driver requires firmware, you can get the approriate firmware from the firmware tree.

Firmware map:

AR9271 - ar9271.fw
AR7010 - ar7010.fw or ar7010_1_1.fw

For AR7010 based cards, place both ar7010.fw and ar7010_1_1.fw in /lib/firmware. The driver would load the required firmware.

The firmware has to be placed in the correct location, usually /lib/firmware. This could vary among distributions, so check your distro's policies if loading of the firmware fails.

Supported Features

  • Station Mode
  • Monitor Mode
  • IBSS Mode
  • Legacy (11g) operation
  • HT support
  • TX/RX 11n AMPDU aggregation
  • HW Encryption
  • LED
  • Powersave
  • Suspend/Resume

TODO

  • AR7010 devices don't work Out Of The Box (TM) right now. This is because these cards are shown as USB mass storage devices on plugging in. Issuing a 'CD EJECT' command would convert the card to work in Wireless mode. A new driver has to be written which would do this automatically. A Homosapien is working on this, until then you can use the 'eject' utility. Example: sudo eject /dev/sr1

Debugging

See here.


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