ath9k usb Wi-Fi driver

Josef Söntgen josef.soentgen at genode-labs.com
Fri Jun 9 16:38:47 CEST 2023


Hi Colin,

> Did you try with a recent branch? I've been having success with rt2x00 and
> ath9k both lately.

No, I have not found the time yet but there should be some time this
weekend.

> > That being said, yesterday I rebased [1] your changes to add hot-plugging
> > support to the 'wpa_supplicant' (they compile but I did not test whether
> > they work or not) to the staging branch containg the wifi stack changes
> > for the upcoming release.
> 
> I was able to get this to work with my "world" version [1]. You can see the
> small changes I needed to make to the main repo in [2]. Commit 7f5c967
> fixes a small issue that wasn't revealed earlier where
> wpa_supplicant_ctrl_iface_deinit is called with a null pointer for the
> second argument. Commit 0b24c1c adds some switches to the linux compile
> without which the usb version of rt2x00 won't build, and 76c138d adds
> usb_report_filter to the config scenario and is not strictly necessary
> unless you want to switch between two types of devices (ath9k and rt2x00)
> on-the-fly.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

> > Maybe you want to give that a try?
> >
> 
> Ok. It may not be so completely simple. Likely there would need to be at
> least small changes to wifi_drv, for example compare "frontend.h" between
> the two, you will see some additional features like _remove_all_aps(), and
> IFACE-DEINIT had to be added to support hot-plug.

Uh sorry, I missed those changes - naturally these should be included as
well.


Regards
Josef

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Josef Söntgen
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