On 28/11/11 09:28, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Al 28/11/2011 0:29, En/na Andrej Vlašić ha escrit: >> Some lantiq boards require pci id 168c:ff16 and 168c:ff1a to be added to >> ath5k in order to detect onboard wlan chip. > > I'm not sure it's correct to simply add these ids: ids starting with ff > identify a chip with no onboard eeprom, and the flash should also > contain a way to reprogram the pci register so that the device gets the > "real" id.
this is how madwifi has been working around the problem for several years. reprogramming the registers is obviously a cleaner way to do this, but as long as the wifi performance does not break, i dont see problems. > At least that's what's done for ath9k devices in the ar71xx platform > (and what I tried to do with this, now bitrotten, patch > http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/1169/) is the performance issue that you patch has fixed ? _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
