at76_usb#
at76_usb driver supports USB devices using Atmel at76c50x chipsets. Only 802.11b protocol is supported. The driver has it’s own 802.11 stack.
See also at76c50x-usb, the mac80211 port of this driver.
Status#
The driver is now in staging tree and was included in linux 2.6.28 release. The driver is now in maintenance mode and all development should happen with at76c50x-usb.
Send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> and CC Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>.
History#
The original at76_usb git tree was here:
http://git.80211libre.org/at76_usb.git/
But it seems to be gone now. The current mac80211 port is in linux-testing and the history for the driver is here:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-legacy.git at76
Firmware#
Some Atmel wireless cards require firmware to be loaded. The firmware can be downloaded from this site:
Supported chipsets#
at76c503-i3861
at76c503-i3863
at76c503-rfmd
at76c503-rfmd-acc
at76c505-rfmd
at76c505-rfmd2958
at76c505a-rfmd2958
at76c505amx-rfmd