Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:20:20PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:59:01PM -0500, Brendan A R Sechter wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:01:59 -0700
> > > Subject: Re: Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM
> > projects?
> > > From: gobble.wa at gmail.com
> > > To: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
> > >
> > > If you are planning on using hostapd, I'm pretty sure the only
> > > available option (USB, anyway) is the Ralink RT5390 .
> > 
> > > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:07:23 +0100
> > > From: ticso at cicely7.cicely.de
> > > To: sgeos at hotmail.com
> > > CC: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org; freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM
> > projects?
> > >
> > > I'd bought some nano WiFi USB on AliExpress marketed for Rasberry usage.
> > > They are Ralink RT5390 based,
> > 
> > I'm seeing a lot of RT5370 USB dongles, but I'm having less luck finding
> > the RT5390.  The following link claims "the RT5390 is the PCIe equivalent
> > of the RT5370 USB".
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2159102
> 
> ugen1.6: <Ralink> at usbus1
> run0: <1.0> on usbus1
> run0: MAC/BBP RT5390 (rev 0x0502), RF RT5370 (MIMO 1T1R), address 00:0f:55:a8:da:83
> 
> > If this is true, any of the RT5370 dongles will work.  Correct?
> 
> My guess is that they are part of the same set.
> Since my sticks are nano I can't easily open them to lookup on the chip.

I manged to tear one open.
In fact it is labeled RT5370N.

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B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.