Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM projects?

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely7.cicely.de
Mon Mar 16 19:30:23 UTC 2015


On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:21:02AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-03-15 at 02:22 +0900, Brendan Sechter wrote:
> > I am looking for thoughts, opinions and recommendations regarding WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM FreeBSD projects.  My requirements are 802.11ac / Bluetooth 4.0.  The ideal module is low cost, works with minimal effort and also has a USB dongle approximation for early stage development.
> > -Brendan 		 	   		  
> 
> Right now, USB is pretty much your only option for bluetooth and wifi on
> freebsd-arm.  All the other chips I've seen that aren't USB are SDIO,
> and we have no SDIO infrastructure for talking to anything except an
> sdcard.

How much work would be needed for PCI support?
My novena (iMX6) came with Atheros modules.

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