Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 06:08:44 -0600 From: PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: native USB 802.11n adapter w/ external SMA jacks? Message-ID: <CAFZ_MYLF5C3LsxCg3rx4FF7cL=nTZ%2BcS5gRwa-40K8tZApkVug@mail.gmail.com>
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> ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:39:46 +0200 > From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> > Subject: Re: native USB 802.11n adapter w/ external SMA jacks? > To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> > Cc: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, 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 <jmg@funkthat.com> 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
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