Re: [Madwifi-devel] about ath9k

[Michael R. <mre...@ma...>]

Hi.

mumu wrote:
> I am a BSD user and i want to know is there any possibility to port ath9k
> to BSD/Solaris, is there any problem about license?

According to the information I have, ath9k is intentionally ISC licensed,
so that the BSD community may port the driver.

> Also, where is the future of Madwifi? New features such as 11n support
> will be only added into ath9k but original madwifi?

MadWifi has been declared legacy, and - apart from DFS - the madwifi.org
team does have no plans on adding any major new features. With the release
of ath9k chances for 11n-support in MadWifi decreased even more.

On the other hand, there is also [1], where one of our team members
(Benoit) stated that he currently considers to work on 11n for MadWifi,
since his employer could benefit from this feature.


Hope this helps.

By the way, there is a dedicated mailing list for ath9k available, see [2]
for details. That list might be better suited for most ath9k-related
questions.

Bye, Mike

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.devel/6584
[2] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel