From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 22:24:13 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 2BC86BAB; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6C38FC12; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rnote.ddteam.net (145-143-135-95.pool.ukrtel.net [95.135.143.145]) (Authenticated sender: ray) by smtp.dlink.ua (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F177DC4927; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:24:10 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:24:09 +0200 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: Today's wireless update - TL;DR - please test -HEAD Message-Id: <20121120002409.0cf7b438.ray@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: References: <50A49138.3080700@gmail.com> <50A52547.6030402@gmail.com> <50A86AB6.3050502@gmail.com> <50A86D6F.807@gmail.com> <769502.20121119235515@serebryakov.spb.ru> <1757912873.20121120000939@serebryakov.spb.ru> <1336007393.20121120001741@serebryakov.spb.ru> Organization: FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lev@freebsd.org, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:24:13 -0000 On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:21:18 -0800 Adrian Chadd wrote: > That's right. The atheros devices have one MAC and one radio. There > was a module which used one MAC and two radios (one 2ghz and one 5ghz) > but only one was active at a time. since there was only one MAC, you > couldn't even do dual-band concurrent operation with that. > > There's nothing _stopping_ a manufacturer putting two NICs on one > board. There's some dual-AR9220 boards out there which have two > AR9220's on a single mini-PCI card. But they require a slightly > modified board - the second NIC has its IDSEL pin on another (unused? > gpio?) mini-PCI pin. So if you plug it into a normal device you only > see one AR9220. Yes, FreeBSD-HEAD runs on the particular dev board and > drives those NICs correctly. > > So far, I don't think anyone has made a public, "correct" dual band > single NIC - which involves putting a PCI or PCIe bridge chip on a > card, as well as two AR9xxx chips. Hi guys! Lev, it seems it's time for you to get some dual-11n-nic router (like f.e. DIR-825) and join to mips community :) > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Aleksandr Rybalko