ar9170#

ar9170usb is a GPL driver for the Atheros 802.11n USB chipset (AR9170).

This driver is deprecated and it was deleted on Linux 3.0, replacedbycarl9170.

See alsootus, the driver which ar9170 is based on, andcarl9170 which drives same hardware.

caveats#

Before you can use the hardware, you have toget the the rightfirmware.

device driver#

ar9170 will be part of the 2.6.31 kernel release but new updates (suchas AVM Fritz support, and support for the one stage open sourcefirmware) will be available until 2.6.32. You can however get the latestar9170 driver, as targeted in the wireless-testing development tree byusinggit to get wireless-testing directly or by using thecompat-wireless tarball which will get you only thewireless drivers.

open firmware#

Firmware is open! Go check thear9170.fw page.

official device firmware#

You have to pick the right one, download and put it into therightplace. Normally this should be /lib/firmware. However somedistributions put firmware in a different place.

  • one stage:adds support for AVM FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N and AVM FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick 2.4

  • *Downloadar9170.fwand put it into the right place.

firmware checksums

filename

md5sum

ar9170.fw

34feec4ec0eae3bb92c7c1ea2dfb4530

firmware checksums

filename

md5sum

ar9170-1.fw

bebf8de7bf0aa8ae3eb395cc6be2e762

ar9170-2.fw

33ae4899340c75be4bc80c34fbe5d171

available devices#

features#

  • 802.11abgn/bgn (depending on hardware)

  • 1 or 2 spatial streams for 802.11n (depending on hardware)

working#

  • 802.11 a/b/g

  • Ad-hoc, monitor and station mode

  • Cryptographic accelerator in station mode

  • SoftLEDs

not working yet#

  • Cryptographic accelerator in Ad-hoc mode

  • Adaptive Noise Immunity

  • Lots of other things

Sharing code between drivers#

ar9170 makes use ofath.ko module for help with regulatory.