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ath9kath9k is a completely FOSS wireless driver for all Atheros IEEE 802.11n PCI/PCI-Express and AHB WLAN based chipsets. Contents
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Mailing listOur mailing list for this driver is: https://lists./mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
Get the latest ath9k driverAny 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.
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 ath9kTo enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211:
Networking ---> Wireless ---> <M> Improved wireless configuration API <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) You can then enable ath9k in the kernel configuration under
Device Drivers ---> [*] Network device support ---> Wireless LAN ---> <M> 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 coexistenceath9k supports 2-wire and 3-wire Bluetooth coexistence, for details see the ath9k btcoex page.
supported chipsetsSB = single-band 2.4GHz DB = dual-band 2.4GHz or 5GHz Legacy:
AR5008:
AR9001:
AR9002:
AR9003:
AR9004:
Available devicesSee the ath9k device list.
Features and modes of operationAll of these modes of operation are supported and should work on all ath9k cards.
Modes of operation
Features
A little history on ath9k
When it went inath9k 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 upOpenWrt became the first distribution to pick up ath9k and contribute to it.
Other sectionsFor more information please see:
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