Atheros AR5B225

The wifi works. The bluetooth does not. Disregard posts to the contrary.

Somebody stated that the bluetooth works in Trisquel I believe. I think they came to this result because they booted a distribution with non-free software first. That loaded the firmware. Then they rebooted to Trisquel and since the system was not powered off completely the firmware was still in the chips memory. When Trisquel tried to load the firmware it would have failed. However it was already loaded by the other OS. Thus the bluetooth driver worked.

The other theory is I'm mistaken about them stating that the bluetooth worked and they just said the card worked. In which case it may be that they tested the wifi portion of the card in Trisquel. It worked and assumed the bluetooth worked as well. It in fact does not though.

I would like to see Atheros release the code for the ath3k firmware/ar30xxx chipset used on this card. However this involves getting a different department within Atheros to cooperate. It may be possible although it won't be as easy to get it released as was the newer ath9k_htc_open USB N chipset firmware.

Thanks Chris!