From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 4 12:08:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD607106567A for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:08:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca) Received: from nm23-vm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm23-vm2.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E8378FC0A for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.52] by nm23.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Sep 2012 12:08:45 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.31] by tm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Sep 2012 12:08:45 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp202.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Sep 2012 12:08:45 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1346760525; bh=Km+KvdeK06qxdye3+880ZzHSxQONvl5dkV0OlPEIiXI=; 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=HFnksOPWIu0yK8lATlQbfm4fF+U/YDAEf5iFCLXben7WOjcNC+p94nk3nqPBUkrCq05e6VILLVHbpiMTzCqL/I8LVkxhcLbx9Y1n77dalPITjSRuSUqmXWy9dXG4oAlWQt8XE7pPf0mX2r9ZhYRO3Bq1Bi94JOkugmdQIwiYLeE= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 660616.76664.bm@smtp202.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: Baz0wDcVM1ndo1dkq.S8mjyCyhxzBYi8nV_7b7mwr88F04C SPeKmXB2CZbBtLEpMiv8wbXw6_6SA.Uv.V_vjCVSPfUSNS5uFBipfIdfZaNu DD_NuDV3wl9jAoCWmSKclu4NWvEEAMsgLJGaT_fc7EkhzmVu6QFPx7g8VNIF DVspDGfDnRG9FGtyg_xw6qKSpIrQ8vHkzXB98JKTGBI8LPmSFCuesNPW.cQF NL63OV98SIp.PO0iG5QvNtwSQspfdmP6VLfJhEAboDPu.4aJgryaxqTqVjrM qJqJZzH6lhfK5nbLGMAGImtIHe2I9kmdQAU2zfCdmRgdpESfea1tNxoAbuOP mTpdxg_1BOufJWUM7tgAMJE23nGaAOKXcDQP845Dvqx3j4VSgwO3tJCH6Jff qwTo_LjhkBhEjWcncBmPqtNBOAhrJA8aKzGY7K11CfRWViuMY4c8Wvs1ZUQ1 fJfaeOIkULVtx0s8zfmvLJAz5PkPWSlOe0hLxYxdpHt.W9FzYSTDp1vCa3RT uQDcrdPOuq8aIsWlMhQpqi6ZPa2H.5UaYbrdMNh6aVcgzOHY8uCHRfkKp23P tYzfliuxBXdHFX2avCdY0n1CBjll4XfglGFvDr3bu X-Yahoo-SMTP: Xr6qjFWswBAEmd20sAvB4Q3keqXvXsIH9TjJ Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (moonlightakkiy@209.85.212.54 with plain) by smtp202.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 04 Sep 2012 05:08:45 -0700 PDT Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so8468113vbm.13 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:08:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.75.36 with SMTP id z4mr12040420vdv.52.1346760524540; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.114.111 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 05:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 06:08:44 -0600 Message-ID: From: PseudoCylon To: Juergen Lock , Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: John-Mark Gurney , 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 12:08:52 -0000 > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:39:46 +0200 > From: Juergen Lock > Subject: Re: native USB 802.11n adapter w/ external SMA jacks? > To: Adrian Chadd > Cc: John-Mark Gurney , freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20120902183946.GA88282@triton8.kn-bremen.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 11:15:09AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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? > > I don't know about arm but I have here "LogiLink WL0054" which is > driven by if_run(4) and comes with an external antenna that's screwed > on, the connector looks smaller than what I see on > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMA_connector > > but maybe there are adapters? Even with just that screwed-on antenna > the range is definitely better than with other usb wifi dongles that > have their antenna built in... And it works in hostap mode too, > tho I haven't tried 11n myself yet, only g. If you are brave, you can try https://gitorious.org/run/run/trees/11n_rc3 Because of dead locks, it blindly unlocks some locks. I don't know what kind of trouble it may cause. AK