Progress on ath5k
Quick update on ath5k: Finally made some progress on the transmit power issue with newer RF designs of Atheros 11a/b/g hardware.
With my patches, I’m finally able to transmit at 54 Mbit with decent, but not yet perfect output power on an AR5413 card. Together with Nick (mickflemm) we’ll finish the rest of the TPC (Transmit Power Control) stuff very soon.
After that I can finally start working on adding WiSoC support to this driver, which means that we’ll be able to replace MadWiFi for some setups on small devices like La Fonera as well.
If you want to help us testing this stuff, please apply ath5k related patches from https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/package/mac80211/patches to a recent wireless-testing version.
7 Responses to “Progress on ath5k”
gmoncada - March 12, 2009
I like Madwifi but i will try with Ath5k driver… for testing purposes..
Best Regars!!
Rubberducky - June 22, 2009
How is the progress for the Atheros SoC?
I would like to use it on my Fonera.
I downloaded and compiled it, but it doesn’t want to load.
gerardo di iorio - June 29, 2009
hi,
is possible use the ath5k driver for fonera????
best regards
z22 - August 27, 2009
Tried ath5k on a D-Link DIR-300 (AR2317) with OpenWRT r17282. The lib80211*, mac80211, cfg80211, ath, and ath5k modules are loaded but ‘iw list’ shows nothing. Maybe the Atheros WiSoC is not supported in ath5k.
nbd - September 6, 2009
It’s not supported yet, but I’m working on that. My patches for WiSoC support in ath5k are about 80% complete now, but it doesn’t transmit or receive yet…
Rubberducky - October 1, 2009
I was wondering what the status for ath5k on the Fonera (WiSoC) was. Looking forward to it being ready!
Rubberducky - March 24, 2010
Hi, me again:-)
Is there any progress?
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