linux内核铁三角,ath9k -Linux Wireless

ath9k

ath9k is a completely FOSS wireless driver for all Atheros IEEE 802.11n PCI/PCI-Express and AHB WLAN based chipsets.

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Get the latest ath9k driver

Any distribution shipping a kernel >= 2.6.27 will have ath9k present but the ath9k driver on 2.6.32 is the oldest one recommended, anything older than that is completely unsupported. Below is a list of the minimal distribution requirements to either use ath9k from 2.6.27 or from compat-wireless, which lets you install newer drivers on older kernels.Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10)

Fedora Core 10

openSUSE 11.1

Mandriva Linux 2009.0 (formally known as Mandrake Linux)

ARCH Linux

Gentoo Linux

Red Flag Linux 7.0 (based on Fedora 10)

If you want to get the latest ath9k driver you can get it by using the wireless-testing git tree. Read our git-guide for that. Alternatively you can download and compile ath9k and its dependencies alone by using compat-wireless. After downloading you can run:

./scripts/driver-select ath9k

make

sudo make install

Enabling ath9k

To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211:

Networking --->

Wireless --->

Improved wireless configuration API

Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)

You can then enable ath9k in the kernel configuration under

Device Drivers --->

[*] Network device support --->

Wireless LAN --->

Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support

QUESTION: Do the above boxes refer to a GUI, or..? What does "Networking —> Wireless —>" mean? I'm not sure where to look. If it's a GUI, what window manager does it refer to?? Is there a command line version?

ANSWER: The above boxes refer to a ncurses user interface. You can get to these menus by typing "make menuconfig" in the Linux kernel source directory.

Bluetooth coexistence

ath9k supports 2-wire and 3-wire Bluetooth coexistence, for details see the ath9k btcoex page.

supported chipsets

SB = single-band 2.4GHz DB = dual-band 2.4GHz or 5GHz

Legacy:AR2427 (>= 2.6.32.16, no 802.11n hardware support, its bonded out) 1x1 SB PCIe

AR5008:AR5418+AR5133 (>= 2.6.27) AR5418 = DB 11n PCIe, AR5133 = 3x3 DB 11n

AR5416+AR5133 (>= 2.6.27) AR5416 = DB 11n PCI

AR5416+AR2133 (>= 2.6.27) AR2133 = 3x3 SB 11n

AR9001:AR9160 (>= 2.6.27) DB 11n

AR9102 (>= 2.6.30, AHB) 2x2 SB 11n

AR9103 (>= 2.6.30, AHB) 3x3 SB 11n

AR9002:AR9220 (>= 2.6.27, an AR9280 card over PCI) 2x2 DB 11n PCI

AR9280 (>= 2.6.27) 2x2 DB 11n PCIe

AR9281 (>= 2.6.27) 2x2 SB 11n PCIe

AR9285 (>= 2.6.29) 1x1 SB 11n PCIe

AR9287 (>= 2.6.32) 2x2 SB 11n PCIe

AR9003:AR9380 (>= 2.6.36) 3x3 DB 11n PCIe

AR9382 (>= 2.6.36) 2x2 DB 11n PCIe

AR9004:AR9485 (>= 2.6.39) 1x1 SB 11n PCIe

Available devices

Features and modes of operation

All of these modes of operation are supported and should work on all ath9k cards.

Modes of operation

Station Mode

AP Mode

IBSS Mode

Monitor Mode

Mesh point

WDS (as of >= 2.6.37)

Features

802.11abg

802.11n

HT20

HT40

AMPDU

Short GI (40 MHz only)

802.11i

WEP 64 / 127

WPA1 / WPA2

802.11d

802.11h

802.11w/D7.0

WPS client side (use wpa_gui-qt4 from wpa_supplicant for now)

WMM

LED

RFKILL

BT co-existence

64-bit support / big endian, small endian

AHB and PCI bus

A little history on ath9k

When it went in

ath9k was announced to have been merged into Linux-2.6.27-rc3 by Linus on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:33:16 -0700 (PDT), and consisted of 58.8% of the entire rc3 patch.

Early distributions which picked it up

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