From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 16 12:29:50 2011 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 2F7461065677 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:29:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AECF8FC0A for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4GCTlXh041037 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 16 May 2011 13:29:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4DD118BB.1080109@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:29:47 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lev Serebryakov References: <1813166089.20110516155219@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <1813166089.20110516155219@serebryakov.spb.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe high-power WiFi card? 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: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:29:50 -0000 On 16/05/2011 12:52, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Freebsd-wireless. > > I want to upgrade my Router/WiFI AP from Soekris net5501 with > MiniPCI WiFi (Senao high-power card with Atheros 5413) to net6501, > which requires Mini-PCIe card. > > It seems, that only Mini-PCIe card with high output power (more than > standard 100mW) is Ubiquiti SR71-E with Atheros 9280 chipset. > > As it is 802.11n with 2x2 MIMO, and there is no official support for > 802.11n in FreeBSD, I have several questions: > > (1) Will it work as 802.11g in 8-STABLE? Havent got that particular card, I have ath0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10671a3b chip=0x002a168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (0001)' class = network which says its (13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot ath0: mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4 ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 which has been running as my home AP for a while now on 8.2-RELEASE (13:27:30 <~>) 0 $ ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: running jhary@ostracod (13:28:32 <~>) 0 $ ifconfig wlan1 wlan1: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255 inet6 fe80::224:23ff:fe07:fb5d%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet6 2001:xxx:xxxx:3::1 prefixlen 64 nd6 options=3 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: running ssid vhoff channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:24:23:07:fb:5d regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 20 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs Hope that helps, Vince > (2) As far as I can see, 802.11n is semi-supported in HEAD. Will it > be ready in 9.0-RELEASE? Will it be backported to 8-STABLE branch? > > And almost unrelated question: am I right, that Ubiquiti SR71-E is > now only card, which is more powerful than standard ones and has > Mini-PCIe connection? There were a lot of high-power (up to 1000mW) > cards with Mini-PCI, but I can not find anything for Mini-PCIe. > > Thank you. >