otus

otus is an Atheros IEEE 802.11n USB Linux "vendor" driver, licensed under the ISC. This driver was used as base to write a new driver based on mac80211, ar9170, which is now upstream. ar9170 still lacks 11n support so you will want to use this driver if you want 11n support until ar9170 matures.

Supported hardware

Atheros 802.11n hardware:

• UB81 - 2x2 2.4 GHz
• UB82 - 2x2 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
• UB83 - 1x2 2.4 GHz

All of these devices are AR9170.

Products in the market

Dlink

• DWA-160A1

Netgear

• WNDA3100 (Dual Band, USB ID 0846:9010, FCC ID PY307300073)
• WN111v2 (USB ID 0846:9001)

TP-Link

• TL-WN821N

AVM

• FRITZ!WLAN N USB Stick (USB ID 0x57c, 0x8401) - currently not running with the driver (see mailing list).

SMC Networks

• SMCWUSB-N2

Requirements

• Kernel 2.4 - 2.6
• openssl-dev package.

Mailing list

Our otus mailing list for this driver is:

https://lists.madwifi-project.org/mailman/listinfo/otus-devel

Get the code

You can get the code here

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/otus.git

wpa_supplicant otus driver

This driver requires its own supplicant driver for wpa_supplicant 0.4.8. For your convenience you can find the tarball here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/otus/wpa_supplicant-0.4.8_otus.tar.bz2

Features supported

• IEEE standard compliance
• IEEE 802.11a/b/g
• IEEE 802.11h, 802.11d
• IEEE 80211i
• IEEE Draft 2.0 802.11n
• Ad Hoc
  • join (2.4GHz, 5GHz if SKU allows)
  • create (2.4GHz , 5GHz if SKU allows)
  • Adhoc security: WEP
• Security: WPA/WPA2 (Personal / Enterprise)