Atheros card with external antenna connector?

[Sam Leffler]

Ian Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Sam Leffler wrote:
>  > Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>  > > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:42:00AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > >> Thankyou Brix!  I was unaware of that whole resource, lots to explore. 
>  > > 
>  > > Welcome. Be ware that the resource deals with the Linux madwifi
>  > > (atheros) driver, but the compatability section should give you some
>  > > good hints on which cards are supported by the FreeBSD ath(4) driver.
> 
> Brix: glad to be free of my misconception that 'Orinoco Gold' used only
> Hermes (wi), lacking hostap mode, like my old 11b Cabletron Roamabout. 
> Its MC external connector is the same, so I've an eBay target already. 
> 
>  > The hal is the same and that's basically the only thing that matters wrt
>  > chip support.
> 
> Sam: just to be sure .. it'd still need to have an AR5210, AR5211, or
> AR5212 chipset to be used with ath(4), not the others madwifi supports?

The hal supports every Atheros cardbus/pci chip set currently in retail
channels except for the AR5005VL parts.  This means you can pretty much
buy anything in a cardbus/pci form factor.

	Sam