= 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, [[en/users/Drivers/ar9170|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.

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= 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)