On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:23:36AM +0100, Dorian B?ttner wrote: > Brynet schrieb: > >Luis Henriques wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>I finally got tired of not using my wireless card on my laptop and decided > >>to > >>take a look at the code. I compared the ath OpenBSD code with similar > >>drivers > >>on NetBSD and Linux kernels, start adding/correcting the ath code and > >>finally > >>got it to work. I am currently able to use my AR5424 wireless card! > > > >I think you may have just duplicated some existing work, Damien commited > >a new Atheros driver in -CURRENT.. it was named athn(4). > > > >http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=125821878008903&w=2 > > > >You might have been able to adapt this new driver, instead of pulling in > >code from Linux (..even if it may be ISC licenced). > > > >>1) Most of the code I'm using is from Linux driver which is AFAIK GPL'ed > >>code. > >> Is this a problem? > > > >If it is GPL code, it's very unlikely to be commited. > > > >-Bryan. > If I remember correctly the AR5424 is the AzureWave assembled into > some EEE Models amongst others. > I don't think it is supported by athn > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
Not sure about this, but I'm have been using -current and the driver that actually is being attached to my card is ath, not athn. The default behaviour (without my mods to the driver) is to crash my system (i.e., the system stops responding and I need to do a hard reboot on the laptop) as soon as I do something like ifconfig ath0 scan or ifconfig ath0 192.168.0.1. Luis
