wireless coordination and who's working on what?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!

If you can put some code up then we can poke at it together and see how to
get the firmware load and USB framework bits into if_ath(4).

You don't want to load it via userland; you really want the driver to load
it at attach time and if it wants to power things fully down off or not.
(You can do a reset command over USB to reset the chip back to "wait for
firmware" which is nice for things like low power modes.)


-a


On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 02:12, Ashish Gupta <ashmew2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add USB glue to the ath driver in order to support Atheros
> USB cards (I'm working with the AR9271 chip specifically).
>
> The code for downloading firmware to the card, similar to uathload, is
> ready but untested. I'm trying to wrap my head around the existing driver
> (thanks Adrian!) and will add register read / write methods next to
> initialize the chip.
>
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, 10:04 Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:57:40AM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:47 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I???ve been and am involved in two projects over the last 6 months
> > > > related to FreeBSD wireless.
> > > > I know there are some out there like me working on this or that;
> some
> > > > known better some less.
> > > >
> > > > I???d love to start coordinating efforts and get an overview on
> who???s
> > > > got his hands dirty in what and who has plans for other ???todos???.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I've got "try fixing up mesh" on my TODO list. I have four Carambola 2
> > > nodes imaged for it so that I can do testing under a couple of more
> > > interesting topologies, it's mostly a matter of finding time and
> > > putting together a couple of 'console servers' for them.
> >
> > I would absolutely love working mesh support. That would drastically
> > help some of the human rights efforts I'm watching and helping.
> >
> > If you need someone to help test experimental code, please ping me. I
> > have a lab specifically for this work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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