| Community AR9170 Linux firmware |
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| This is the firmware for the Atheros ar9170 802.11n devices. |
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| To build the firmware you will need an SH-2 toolchain. |
| You can build your own toolchain: |
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| make -C toolchain |
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| but be aware that this will take some time and requires |
| about 1.2 GiB disk space. |
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| The resulting firmware, carl9170.fw, can be used only |
| with the carl9170 Linux driver. |
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| After getting a toolchain, you will need to get more |
| tools & libs: |
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| * gcc 4.4+ |
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| * gperf, bison/flex |
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| * cmake 2.8.0+ |
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| * libusb 1.0+ |
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| * SDL SDK 1.2.13+ |
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| afterwards, simply execute: |
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| autogen.sh |
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| to start the configuration and build process. |
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| if you want to "install" your own firmware, you can either |
| do this manually, or by executing: |
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| autogen.sh install |
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| This will place a copy with the right filename [adds API rev] |
| into /lib/firmware/[the default path on most Distributions]. |
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