Re: half-mini PCIe wifi card and hostpad mode?

Hello,

Thank you. Glad to read that ath is not as limited as its man page says. Upgrading to HEAD is not really on my roadmap for now, I would rather wait for a back port if it's a matter of mouths.

regards,
Patrick

On 23 mai 2013, at 01:57, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi
> 
> AR9280 and AR9285 work on freebsd-9, but there's been a lot of work in
> -HEAD to improve features and stability.
> 
> Please consider updating to -HEAD.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian
> 
> On 22 May 2013 13:34, Patrick Proniewski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm not sure if it's the right mailing list for this question, but as mini PCIe wifi cards are mostly used in mobile computers, I give it a try:
>> 
>> I'm looking for a half mini PCIe wifi card supporting hostapd mode. I might be wrong, but it appears that only Atheros chipset can be used with hostpad. I've found many recent Atheros based half mini PCIe wifi cards, but according to `man ath` on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p2 they are not supported:
>> 
>> Atheros AR5B95 AR9285 802.11B/G/N Half Mini PCI-E Card
>> Atheros AR5B93 WiFi 802.11n draft Wireless Half Mini PCI-E Card
>> Atheros AR5BHB92-H AR9280 802.11 b/g/n Wireless PCIe Half Size Mini Card
>> 
>> It would be great if someone could give some pointers to half mini PCIe WIFI cards working in hostapd mode on FreeBSD 9.1.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Patrick
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