Atheros released their HAL under an ISC license

This is NOT the same HAL that is used by madwifi-ng – just to hopefully stop some of the questions – This mail was sent to the ath5k-devel mailing list last night

As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
under Linux we’d like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.

You can find it here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2

This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

Luis

Awesome. Simply Awesome.

2008
09/27
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3 comments

  1. Basically, Atheros totally one-upped Intel. Complete pwnage. Hadoken. Tiger uppercut.

    Score?

  2. I have no Intel wireless cards, so I don’t know the situation over there – but I do know that ath5k in kernel has a patch now that should allow it to do AP mode…

  3. Intel still requires a binary blob, in addition to the much-vaunted open-source iwlwifi code, “justified” by the drivel that Atheros used to spew. Regulatory stuff, legal compliance, etc. And still no AP mode that I’m aware of.

    Atheros has delivered a nice blow, I think.

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