Quick Guide for AR1021X porting

1 What’s included in package

- Ath6kl_usb driver in <package>/drivers/ath6kl

Support AR9374.

- Cfg80211 in <package>/drivers/cfg80211

Provide API to control ath6kl_usb.

- Compat in <package>/drivers/comapt

Solve compatible issues on different versions of kernels.

- Other utilities.

1. Wpa_supplicant (version 0.8)

2. Wpa_cli

3. Iw-3.0

4. libnl-1

5. tx99

6. athtst

2 How to build on x86

2.1 Untar package

# untar zxvf ATH6KL-LSDK-WLAN-AIO-3.2.1.x.tgz

2.2 Change to build directory

# cd build

2.3 Modify Makefile.x86

Modify build/scripts/x86-combo/Makefile.x86-combo as bellow

2.4 Apply driver patches

# make drivers_patch BOARD_TYPE=x86-combo

2.5 Convert firmware from .bin to .h

# make drivers_firmware_transfer BOARD_TYPE=x86-combo

2.6 Build driver and utilities

# make BOARD_TYPE=x86-combo

2.7 iw Package

 You can get the iw package in ATH6KL LSDK, which path is <LSDK>\apps\iw-3.0.

The iw is another application which use netlink socket interface. This application mainly uses to

debug, dump driver/hardware information or setup special driver function, like WoW.

3 How to port to other platform

3.1 Clone a set for other platform

# cp build/scripts/x86 build/scripts/<other platform>

# mv build/scripts/x86/config.x86 build/scripts/x86/<other platform>/config.<other platform>

# mv build/scripts/x86/Makefile.x86 build/scripts/x86/<other platform>/Makefile.<other platform>

3.2 Modify toolchain and kernel path in config file

Edit build/scripts/<other platform>/config.<other platform>, and assign toolchain and kernel path in

environmental variables bellow.

- KERNELPATH

- KERNELARCH

- TOOLPREFIX

3.3 Follow the same steps as “2. How to build on x86” to build the driver and

utilities on other platform

3.4 Please also refer to “ath6kl_support_guide.doc” for troubleshooting and

details.

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