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= 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 [[en/users/Drivers/at76c50x-usb|at76c50x-usb]], the mac80211 port of this driver.

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= 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 [[en/users/Drivers/at76c50x-usb|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:

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/

= Supported chipsets =
 * at76c503-i3861
 * at76c503-i3863
 * at76c503-rfmd
 * at76c503-rfmd-acc
 * at76c505-rfmd
 * at76c505-rfmd2958
 * at76c505a-rfmd2958
 * at76c505amx-rfmd