linux-kernel - Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released

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Message-ID: <69e28c910906051212l6f6548bflf7d83c4eccf80fad@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:12:03 +0200
From:	Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@...il.com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, otus-devel@...ts.madwifi-project.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce we have released the source code to our
> Atheros 802.11n USB Otus/ar9170 device under the GPL. You can grab the
> source, compile and use it with the upstream ar9170 device driver.
> Patches are welcomed. The git tree available for this is at:
>
> http://git.sipsolutions.net/ar9170-fw.git
>
> For more information please visit the home page for this project is on
> our Linux wireless wiki:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw
>
> The ar9170 device driver home page is at:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
>
> I'd like to thank Johannes Berg and Christian Lamparter for their
> incredible contributions to the project both firmware and ar9170
> driver so far without which this would not have been possible.
>
>  Luis

Great! That's a first for any wireless chip...

BTW can we expect a similar firmware source release for ar2524/zd1211?

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