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| author |   stsp <stsp@openbsd.org> | 2018-02-05 15:32:10 +0000 |
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| committer | stsp <stsp@openbsd.org> | 2018-02-05 15:32:10 +0000 |
| commit | b86f193f5bffd91ad11a5fe891d8a18720e770df (patch) | |
| tree | 4345977647806503a8febfe998ddcbc697320304 | |
| parent | Remove tcp_acounts, some tcp_usrreq() counting from 1981. Also (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-b86f193f5bffd91ad11a5fe891d8a18720e770df.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-b86f193f5bffd91ad11a5fe891d8a18720e770df.zip | |
Document athn(4) USB open source firmware support.
Remove the BUGS section, USB Host AP works now. Mention in the CAVEATS
section that USB Host AP is limited to 7 concurrent clients.
Add bentley@ and myself to the AUTHORS section.
ok jmc, bentley
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/athn.4 | 22 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/athn.4 b/share/man/man4/athn.4 index 9c42aac9693..c58884f179d 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/athn.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/athn.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: athn.4,v 1.33 2017/07/12 05:44:33 bentley Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: athn.4,v 1.34 2018/02/05 15:32:10 stsp Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 12 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2018 $ .Dt ATHN 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -161,17 +161,19 @@ of data frames. The transmit speed is user-selectable or can be adapted automatically by the driver depending on the number of hardware transmission retries. .Sh FILES -For USB devices, the driver needs at least version 1.1 of the following +For USB devices, the driver needs at least version 1.1p4 of the following firmware files, which are loaded when an interface is attached: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact -.It Pa /etc/firmware/athn-ar7010 -.It Pa /etc/firmware/athn-ar7010-11 -.It Pa /etc/firmware/athn-ar9271 +.It Pa /etc/firmware/athn-open-ar7010 +.It Pa /etc/firmware/athn-open-ar9271 .El .Pp A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using .Xr fw_update 1 . +Firmware source code is available under a mix of BSD and GPLv2 licences. +A port which cross-compiles the firmware can be found in +.Pa /usr/ports/sysutils/devel/open-ath9k-htc-firmware . .Sh EXAMPLES The following example scans for available networks: .Pp @@ -241,10 +243,14 @@ driver was written by .An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr based on source code licensed under the ISC released in 2008 by Atheros Communications for Linux. +.An Anthony J. Bentley Aq Mt bentley@openbsd.org +added the open source USB firmware and its cross-compiler to the ports tree. +.An Stefan Sperling Aq Mt stsp@openbsd.org +implemented driver support for the open source USB firmware. .Sh CAVEATS Support for 802.11n 40MHz channels and Tx aggregation is not yet implemented. Additional work is required in .Xr ieee80211 9 before those features can be supported. -.Sh BUGS -Host AP mode does not work with USB devices. +.Pp +On USB devices, the firmware limits Host AP mode to 7 concurrent clients. |