Questions on sponsering a driver port.

[Javier Cardona]

Hi Matt,

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Matt Ryan <ryan at passportsystems.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I work for a company (passportsystems.com) that is looking to develop a
> product using the Neo
> Freerunner(http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner) in a mesh
> networking environment.

Interesting.  Our company prototyped o11s on freerunner phones, but we
had to use different wireless cards.  The AR6K family are fullmac¹
chips and so cannot be used with mac80211/o11s.  In theory it would be
possible for Atheros to release a thin firmware that works with
mac80211.  This has been done before on other fullmac chips by other
vendors².  You'll need a very convincing case for them to support you
on that, but if they do we can write the driver for you.

Cheers,

Javier

[1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation/Glossary#FullMAC
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg08665.html


> Ideally we would like to use the new 80211s standard, and hence the
> open80211s implementation. Unfortunately the Neo Freerunner's WiFi driver is
> the Atheros ar6k driver(http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar6k),
> which is not currently supported by open80211s. . We would like to port the
> ar6k driver to utilize the new mac80211 stack, and therefore open80211s.
> Unfortunately our internal staff knows very little about wireless drivers,
> and we would like to seek the expertise of the community.
>
> We would like to find any willing developers who we could pay for their time
> to get open80211s running on the Neo Freerunner's WiFi
> hardware.(http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware#WiFi_Module)
>
> If anyone has interest, or knows of a better place for me to find a
> developer please don't hesitate to contact me at ryan at passportsystems.com
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Matt Ryan
> Software Engineer
> Passport Systems, Inc
>
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Javier Cardona
cozybit Inc.
http://www.cozybit.com