From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 4 11:56:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72E21065674 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca) Received: from nm22-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm22-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 888EA8FC12 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.66] by nm22.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Sep 2012 11:56:29 -0000 Received: from [98.136.185.44] by tm6.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Sep 2012 11:56:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Sep 2012 11:56:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1346759789; bh=XIDnGOtdY+OjQv86pe2HQ0h4XQLJFEZ55V4UuQFcfuc=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Received:MIME-Version:Received:Received:Date:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Content-Type; b=SDjV+Duz/a9SQQ1AakfQRH9HrS2VRnrVMqQFAigr7a9qetx41t1OSoyeAsUMrFOgTEOTMjaEgA31LELSmxr9zbBPjiXM7zFMy9T8pnv75QkiDV1zg8zguw5EB+sGhJ2Lk7ivca4+4zchukRoDgVyM4A2PZrZUrv3RMcmGlLLk3E= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 308810.66380.bm@smtp105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: .OvJImsVM1k.TwkuLE5Ufa8z8vRD2gJxw8OuK0psqn_FIlI 9mEerR4SmdJjAYzTeoQjwAsGkQEes5EpVofMP5hLG0v7szx_F0MF4Hmi7hwh 9pQOypieNA.U_UZTmjlQycZm.LyBNeaVqA3O_O02i2U9ifOcnjIuX1ZH.xoS vZdMEvJbsgT9DkNLaRwMlfCA7DGG3LEmmRx_ghoHokKtFobL0xwICvh1PJCk U2I3ylvXPZ9Px8FDAdiEpQtXqhgiRitkDhkmgLWJzS9WhGTFgqHPnVagUTAV AcVMXoYOE9XWfUftZo5ivNbrUat0n3ozwYRRNihwN1UZy48tm_0oK7n0lFhz KvrGw3x.sZUYgXbiA5paS0bwly06t3OMPVlcw3jTYrjTGR3GDbDOgvMitHdD FB886Mmjr9hBCLn4aiFqMV1vTNlK6KohcZ43c1klpZuGZMQlp0a_BnmmHRbY oJIKztWE4rmo- X-Yahoo-SMTP: Xr6qjFWswBAEmd20sAvB4Q3keqXvXsIH9TjJ Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (moonlightakkiy@209.85.212.54 with plain) by smtp105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 04 Sep 2012 04:56:28 -0700 PDT Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so8442130vbm.13 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:56:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.79.2 with SMTP id f2mr15859657vex.31.1346759784393; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.114.111 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 04:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 05:56:24 -0600 Message-ID: From: PseudoCylon To: John-Mark Gurney , Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: native USB 802.11n adapter w/ external SMA jacks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:56:35 -0000 > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 00:14:25 -0700 > From: John-Mark Gurney > Subject: Re: native USB 802.11n adapter w/ external SMA jacks? > To: Adrian Chadd > Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20120903071425.GJ58312@funkthat.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 11:15 -0700: >> On 2 September 2012 11:12, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Please cc me as I'm not subscribed to -wireless. >> > >> > I'm looking for a 802.11n USB adapter that is supported on ARM w/ external >> > SMA jacks. I plan to use this w/ a BeagleBone so clearly ndis drivers >> > will not work. >> > >> > I see plenty of adapters are available, but as usual, they don't list >> > which chipset they are based upon, making the decission hard. >> > >> > I'm looking at 802.11n more for future support, so even just a 802.11bg >> > device would be fine. >> >> I'm not currently aware of any USB wifi devices that are like that. >> >> I'd suggest first canvassing ebay/google/amazon for some candidates? > > As I said earlier, I've found a number of devices that do have the > connector, but the problem is that trying to figure out which driver > they use is a bit difficult... It looks like the Hawking HWUN1 (run) > would work, but it's no longer sold.. > > I also noticed that many of the USB drivers are listed as supporting > only one virtual interface at a time, though run doesn't list that > limitation... Does run support multiple wlan networks at once? Not really/yet. The device could support up to 8 vaps. (I have found there is memory for 8 beacons and 8 shared keys, but I haven't found out how to make h/w use it.) AK