1 This is the firmware for the Qualcomm Atheros AR7010 and AR9271 USB
8 This is the firmware which resides in RAM on the AR7010/AR9271 NICs.
9 It is used by ath9k (Linux) and athn (OpenBSD) to provide wireless
13 Ok, what are those NICs?
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16 The AR7010 is a USB/PCIe SoC with onboard RAM, ROM and flash.
17 It comes with an external wireless chip connected via PCIe - typically
20 The AR9271 is a USB/Wifi SoC with onboad RAM, ROM, flash and the
21 actual wireless chip. The wireless core is an off-shoot of the AR9285.
22 It is a single-chip solution.
27 You're in for a treat.
29 * You first have to build the toolchain.
39 (Yes, I made this work on FreeBSD as well.)
41 * Next, build the firmware.
49 edit the build script, change make to gmake, and then
53 You will end up with two .fw files - one for the AR7010 and one for
60 You need to then copy this into the relevant location for your operating
61 system. Yes, this means you need a driver. No, there's no FreeBSD
62 driver yet for this particular chipset, sorry.
68 Bug tracking and email list will appear here shortly.