otus
otus is an Atheros IEEE 802.11n USB Linux driver, licensed under the ISC.
Contents
Supported hardware
Atheros 802.11n hardware:
- UB81 - 2x2 2.4 GHz
- UB82 - 2x2 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
- UB83 - 1x2 2.4 GHz
All of these devices are AR9170.
Products in the market
Dlink
- DWA-160A1
Netgear
- WNDA3100
- WN111v2
TP-Link
- TL-WN821N
AVM
- FRITZ!WLAN N USB Stick (USB ID 0x57c, 0x8401)
Requirements
Kernel 2.4 - 2.6.24. Patches for >= 2.6.24 are greatly appreciated.
Mailing list
Our otus mailing list for this driver is:
https://lists.madwifi-project.org/mailman/listinfo/otus-devel
Get the code
You can get the code here
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/otus.git
wpa_supplicant otus driver
This driver requires its own supplicant driver for wpa_supplicant 0.4.8. For your convenience you can find the tarball here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/otus/wpa_supplicant-0.4.8_otus.tar.bz2
Features supported
- IEEE standard compliance
- IEEE 802.11a/b/g
- IEEE 802.11h, 802.11d
- IEEE 80211i
- IEEE Draft 2.0 802.11n
- Ad Hoc
- join (2.4GHz, 5GHz if SKU allows), create (2.4GHz , 5GHz if SKU allows) Adhoc security: WEP
- Security
- Authentication: WPA/WPA2 (Personal / Enterprise),
- 802.1x Encryption: none, AES, TKIP, WEP40, WEP104
- Authentication: WPA/WPA2 (Personal / Enterprise),