From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 23:43:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E0C1065672 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:43:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7051F8FC0A for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:43:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbfr13 with SMTP id fr13so1295585vbb.13 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:43:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=F6OVaOjRWjm2qF5ghLHBT8Qnc61kmL8D9MrWsgFyFe8=; b=m+p2ITeyrBfijve/M5AlhtEIH6C7hwETeMmuSRHeg1XgY+ig+3D21I3TS8k7Hd/xu1 ZDnH3A6iIw8DUCr3wRGAUH/3nfL6QVuDTyy6XOqVpSgZAaah8+f/TPLgJ0cxwAEnXorx ZiMVJ6bYRB51nOjbUUljL5S3ua3f2xT7/2e8U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.23.44 with SMTP id j12mr1867796vdf.117.1325807009589; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:43:29 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.36.5 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:43:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F063339.9040608@luckie.org.nz> References: <4F056691.4060403@luckie.org.nz> <4F063339.9040608@luckie.org.nz> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:43:29 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qK1Rq2a2aqjvwZltkbSIVXDnFfg Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Matthew Luckie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minipcie wifi card X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:43:30 -0000 On 5 January 2012 15:33, Matthew Luckie wrote: > Habey have two atheros Mini-PCIe cards: > > http://www.habeyusa.com/products_show.php?id=3D361 -- HB-NB037H > http://www.habeyusa.com/products_show.php?id=3D353 -- HB-NE785H > > The NB037 model is advertised as supporting bluetooth, and the NE785 mode= l > (which I asked about, and I believe to have incorrect docs) is not. =A0To= me > it appears that they have copy/pasted the page for the bluetooth supporti= ng > model to the non-bluetooth supporting model. > > I was tempted to get the NB037 model anyway but the docs suggest that > Antenna 2 is required for bluetooth -- I only have one antenna mounting > position in my ITX case. =A0I am happy to get this card and test for you = if > you think I'll actually be able to test bluetooth -- that only Antenna 1 = is > required for both wifi and bluetooth. =A0If possible I'd prefer patches > against 9.0R as the machine its going into is fairly important. Hi, Please consider getting two antennas mounted. I can't stress enough how much of a pain it's going to be having only one antenna - I still haven't found the time (or someone interested to do the work) to add the bits to the driver/HAL to support single antenna operation correctly and consistently. A lot of weird behaviour people complain about (eg lots of "stuck beacon" and poor throughput) boil down to only having one antenna connected and the driver just doesn't know to disable or not use that particular antenna/radio chain. I'll only be doing development against -HEAD. The -HEAD ath/hal/net80211 code will compile and run as modules under -9. I'll publish some instructions on how to do that if you're interested but I won't be publishing patches against -9 or backporting anything except bugfixes for quite some time. Sorry, but that's what I can do with limited time and resources. Adrian