Hacking ath9k wifi device adventures

So here is where it all started. I have this apple branded atheros AR5BXB92, with an ar9280 chipset, which is supported by the ath9k Linux drivers. This chipset is supposed to support both 5GHz and 2.4GHz frequencies, but using the wavemon tool 5GHz SSID never show up even when I'm next to a device that emits one. iw list shows the following: Band 2: Capabilities: 0x11ce HT20/HT40 SM Power Save disabled RX HT40 SGI TX STBC RX STBC 1-stream Max AMSDU length: 3839 bytes DSSS/CCK HT40 Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003) Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 8 usec (0x06) HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-15 Bitrates (non-HT): * 6.
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Porting the Intel DG41WV and Intel 4 series DDR3 raminit to coreboot

This post will explain a bit how the Intel 4 series DDR3 raminit came to be and will introduce a new board that can make use of this code, namely the Intel DG41WV. DDR3 raminit In the past I have worked quite on a bit on the coreboot code that support the Intel 4 series desktop chipset (those chipsets go by the name of G41, G43, G45, Q43, Q45, P41, P43, P45, B43 with each having a somewhat different feature set).
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