From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 15 22:48:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90FF7BD8 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:48:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shadow.sentry.org (shadow.sentry.org [220.233.87.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2106524E for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shadow.sentry.org (localhost.sentry.org [127.0.0.1]) by shadow.sentry.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t2FMarPF012435 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:36:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from trev@sentry.org) Message-ID: <55060984.9030301@sentry.org> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:36:52 +1100 From: Trevor Roydhouse Organization: Sentry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM projects? References: <1426436462.67325.1.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1426436462.67325.1.camel@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender DNS name whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (shadow.sentry.org [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:36:53 +1100 (EST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:48:29 -0000 Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2015-03-15 at 02:22 +0900, Brendan Sechter wrote: >> I am looking for thoughts, opinions and recommendations regarding WiFi / >> Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM FreeBSD projects. My requirements are >> 802.11ac / Bluetooth 4.0. The ideal module is low cost, works with minimal >> effort and also has a USB dongle approximation for early stage development. >> -Brendan > > Right now, USB is pretty much your only option for bluetooth and wifi on > freebsd-arm. All the other chips I've seen that aren't USB are SDIO, > and we have no SDIO infrastructure for talking to anything except an > sdcard. For WiFi, given my issues with a USB WiFi dongle stalling with the RPi B+ (if_urtwn driver), I used one of those $US 10-12 pocket wireless N routers (the size of a thumb drive) sourced from eBay which connects to the ethernet port, is powered from a USB port, and joins the WiFi network as a client. Works well. -- Trevor Roydhouse BJuris, LLB, LLM (UNSW) Systems Developer Australasian Legal Information Institute Web : www.austlii.edu.au