Re: Atheros card with external antenna connector?
Ian Smith <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Sam Leffler wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Sam Leffler wrote: > > > Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:42:00AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > >> Thankyou Brix! I was unaware of that whole resource, lots to explore. > > > > > > > > Welcome. Be ware that the resource deals with the Linux madwifi > > > > (atheros) driver, but the compatability section should give you some > > > > good hints on which cards are supported by the FreeBSD ath(4) driver. > > > > Brix: glad to be free of my misconception that 'Orinoco Gold' used only > > Hermes (wi), lacking hostap mode, like my old 11b Cabletron Roamabout. > > Its MC external connector is the same, so I've an eBay target already. > > > > > The hal is the same and that's basically the only thing that matters wrt > > > chip support. > > > > Sam: just to be sure .. it'd still need to have an AR5210, AR5211, or > > AR5212 chipset to be used with ath(4), not the others madwifi supports? > > The hal supports every Atheros cardbus/pci chip set currently in retail > channels except for the AR5005VL parts. This means you can pretty much > buy anything in a cardbus/pci form factor. Thanks, but I'm still a little confused, sorry. I supppose ath(4) and ath_hal(4) are a bit out of date then, as they both specify just those 3 chipsets - at least at 5.5-S Aug 1st and 6.1-R. The link in both to http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts now redirects to somewhere not quite so useful (http://atheros.com/RD/) and fwiw, the Orinoco 8470WD, which looks like a card I can use with an external connector is b/g, not a/b/g as per the mans - but then I guess you can't do 802.11a and b/g through a single antenna connection anyway. So thanks again .. I'll dig a little deeper from my newbie start point. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"