netdev - Re: ar5k and Atheros AR5005G

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Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:45:08 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Daniel Drake <ddrake@...ntes3d.com>
Cc:	madwifi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ar5k and Atheros AR5005G

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 21:39, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in porting the ar5k driver to Linux after the recent SFLC
> conclusions on the legal status. However, the hardware I have here
> appears to be unsupported by ar5k:
> 
> 01:04.0 0200: 168c:001a (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: 168c:2052
> 
> 01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 2052
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 66
>         Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> It is a mini-PCI card.
> 
> Does anyone know how much work would be needed for the ar5k codebase to
> support this hardware?

I started to port this at
http://bu3sch.de/ath/atheros.git/

I dunno how hard it is to add hw support.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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