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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:14:51 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Porting the OpenBSD free Atheros HAL
Message-ID:  <200411090914.51811.sam@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041109165920.9B9A643D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20041109165920.9B9A643D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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On Tuesday 09 November 2004 08:59 am, mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote:
> deker@slackdot.org wrote:
> > You're right, it does. However, myself and collegue recently presented
> > our work in raw Atheros raw frame injection at ToorCon based on the
> > Atheros HAL and Sam's driver/HAL wrapper. If you're familliar with these
> > cards and their current status in the open-source world, you'll know
> > that the only method of using them relies solely on the binary-only HAL
> > provided by Atheros that Sam Leffler was kind enough to wrap in a
> > FreeBSD driver shell.
>
> Would this give us AMD64 support for atheros cards?

amd64 support has been available for several months. You must get it from the 
madwifi project at sourceforge then update the FreeBSD driver using the 
patches I've posted for many months now.

 Sam



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