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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:24:09 +0200
From:      Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        lev@freebsd.org, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Today's wireless update - TL;DR - please test -HEAD
Message-ID:  <20121120002409.0cf7b438.ray@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:21:18 -0800
Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> 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
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