From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 5 05:29:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427CB16A492 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 05:29:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4877943D49 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 05:28:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.4) with SMTP id QAA21299; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 16:28:40 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 16:28:39 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Sam Leffler In-Reply-To: <454CBBED.404@errno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros card with external antenna connector? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:29:01 -0000 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