Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:29:47 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe high-power WiFi card? Message-ID: <4DD118BB.1080109@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1813166089.20110516155219@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <1813166089.20110516155219@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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On 16/05/2011 12:52, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Freebsd-wireless. > > I want to upgrade my Router/WiFI AP from Soekris net5501 with > MiniPCI WiFi (Senao high-power card with Atheros 5413) to net6501, > which requires Mini-PCIe card. > > It seems, that only Mini-PCIe card with high output power (more than > standard 100mW) is Ubiquiti SR71-E with Atheros 9280 chipset. > > As it is 802.11n with 2x2 MIMO, and there is no official support for > 802.11n in FreeBSD, I have several questions: > > (1) Will it work as 802.11g in 8-STABLE? Havent got that particular card, I have ath0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10671a3b chip=0x002a168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (0001)' class = network which says its (13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4 ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 which has been running as my home AP for a while now on 8.2-RELEASE (13:27:30 <~>) 0 $ ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap> status: running jhary@ostracod (13:28:32 <~>) 0 $ ifconfig wlan1 wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255 inet6 fe80::224:23ff:fe07:fb5d%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet6 2001:xxx:xxxx:3::1 prefixlen 64 nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap> status: running ssid vhoff channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:24:23:07:fb:5d regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 20 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs Hope that helps, Vince > (2) As far as I can see, 802.11n is semi-supported in HEAD. Will it > be ready in 9.0-RELEASE? Will it be backported to 8-STABLE branch? > > And almost unrelated question: am I right, that Ubiquiti SR71-E is > now only card, which is more powerful than standard ones and has > Mini-PCIe connection? There were a lot of high-power (up to 1000mW) > cards with Mini-PCI, but I can not find anything for Mini-PCIe. > > Thank you. >
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