1 This is the firmware for the Qualcomm Atheros AR7010 and AR9271 USB
7 This is the firmware which resides in RAM on the AR7010/AR9271 NICs.
8 It is used by ath9k (Linux) and athn (OpenBSD) to provide wireless
11 What licence is this covered by?
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14 The Qualcomm Atheros owned code is under the ClearBSD licence.
16 The NOTICES.TXT file contains copyright notices for software which
17 this firmware release leverages.
19 There is some code that is based off of work done under contract
20 but is owned by Qualcomm Atheros; the original copyright statements
21 from that work are in NOTICES.TXT.
23 The Tensilica code (xtos/xtensa) is distributed with permission from
24 Tensilica, Inc., under the MIT licence.
26 There are three ECOS source files distributed under the terms of
27 the GPLv2, with a caveat that linking or using the source files does
28 not bring the rest of the binary under the GPLv2. Please read the
29 ECOS caveats in more detail.
32 Ok, what are those NICs?
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35 The AR7010 is a USB/PCIe SoC with onboard RAM, ROM and flash.
36 It comes with an external wireless chip connected via PCIe - typically
39 The AR9271 is a USB/Wifi SoC with onboad RAM, ROM, flash and the
40 actual wireless chip. The wireless core is an off-shoot of the AR9285.
41 It is a single-chip solution.
46 You're in for a treat.
48 * You first have to build the toolchain.
58 (Yes, I made this work on FreeBSD as well.)
60 * Next, build the firmware.
68 edit the build script, change make to gmake, and then
72 You will end up with two .fw files - one for the AR7010 and one for
73 the AR9271 in the target_firmware directory.
79 You need to then copy this into the relevant location for your operating
80 system. Yes, this means you need a driver. No, there's no FreeBSD
81 driver yet for this particular chipset, sorry.
87 Please file bugs in github - http://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/issues .
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