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- This is the firmware for the Qualcomm Atheros AR7010 and AR9271 USB
- 802.11n NICs.
- What is this exactly?
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- This is the firmware which resides in RAM on the AR7010/AR9271 NICs.
- It is used by ath9k (Linux) and athn (OpenBSD) to provide wireless
- services.
- Ok, what are those NICs?
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- The AR7010 is a USB/PCIe SoC with onboard RAM, ROM and flash.
- It comes with an external wireless chip connected via PCIe - typically
- an AR9280 or AR9285.
- The AR9271 is a USB/Wifi SoC with onboad RAM, ROM, flash and the
- actual wireless chip. The wireless core is an off-shoot of the AR9285.
- It is a single-chip solution.
- How do I build it?
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- You're in for a treat.
- * You first have to build the toolchain.
- * Linux:
- $ make toolchain
- * FreeBSD:
- $ gmake toolchain
- (Yes, I made this work on FreeBSD as well.)
- * Next, build the firmware.
- * Linux:
- $ ./build
- * FreeBSD:
- edit the build script, change make to gmake, and then
- $ ./build
- You will end up with two .fw files - one for the AR7010 and one for
- the AR9271.
- Then what?
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- You need to then copy this into the relevant location for your operating
- system. Yes, this means you need a driver. No, there's no FreeBSD
- driver yet for this particular chipset, sorry.
- Further information
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- Bug tracking and email list will appear here shortly.
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