On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:37:11PM -0400, Jason wrote: > Specifically, I'm referring to the AR6001 in the GTA02. The main reason > I was excited about the GTA02 coming out was the prospect of a phone > with an Atheros chipset. Every Atheros chipset I ever worked with in > linux had monitor mode and injection with at most a single patch. I was > really looking forward to using the GTA02 as a wifi auditing tool.
This is a common misconception. Atheros behaves _completely_ different with regard to their AR5k and AR9k variants (full softmac, and now fully open source drivers, no firmware) and the mobile AR6k chipset. It's a different product line with a different target audience, and Atheros apparently is under the misconception that mobile users need to get Atheros' fullmac firmware down their throat, with only very crappy not-mainline-mergeable linux drivers, no hardware documentation and actually not even wanting to allow users to flash a new firmware image into the flash. It's really sad.... -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
