Questions on sponsering a driver port.

[Matt Ryan]

> Interesting.  Our company prototyped o11s on freerunner phones, but we
> had to use different wireless cards.  The AR6K family are fullmac¹
> chips and so cannot be used with mac80211/o11s.  In theory it would be
> possible for Atheros to release a thin firmware that works with
> mac80211.  This has been done before on other fullmac chips by other
> vendors².  You'll need a very convincing case for them to support you
> on that, but if they do we can write the driver for you.

Hi Javier,

Thanks for the information, I was under the impression that while it was full MAC, it could still be made to use cfg80211, and that would be good enough for open80211 to use.  

Out of curiosity what wireless cards did you end up going with?

Thanks for your time,

Matt


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