On 2010-10-19 12:21 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> Greetings ath5k hackers!
> 
> I'm just starting to get into working with ath5k and the whole
> mac80211/nl80211 framework as I'm trying to get an 802.11s
> implementation working on an embedded Linux platform that I have. The
> platform that I have is based on top of an Atheros AR2315 "WiSOC" (a
> MIPS core, wireless MAC/PHY, some RF components) that is not all that
> dissimilar from the AR5006AP reference design for the chip, but
> unfortunately I'm finding that the current ath5k tree doesn't seem to
> support this chip as 802.11 hardware. A recent MadWifi tree seems to
> support the hardware just fine.
> 
> Has anyone experimented with this device? Searching has revealed a
> thread on this list from about a year ago about the same thing. Felix
> Fietkau mentioned starting to test getting ath5k working with this
> hardware, but I'm not sure what may have come of that.
> 
> If there's no working support at the moment, I'm interested in putting
> in some work to get it supported, and am wondering if anyone else
> might be interested in collaborating on this.
I did some work on WiSoC support a long time ago. Ported over large
parts, but did not have the time to finish my work.
Here are my patches: http://nbd.name/ath5k-patches.tar.gz
They won't apply anymore, but might be useful as a reference.

- Felix
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