half-mini PCIe wifi card and hostpad mode?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

I have no plans to backport anything. If someone wants to take charge
of backporting net80211 and wifi drivers from head, be my guest. :)



adrian

On 22 May 2013 22:20, Patrick Proniewski <patpro at patpro.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you. Glad to read that ath is not as limited as its man page says. Upgrading to HEAD is not really on my roadmap for now, I would rather wait for a back port if it's a matter of mouths.
>
> regards,
> Patrick
>
> On 23 mai 2013, at 01:57, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> AR9280 and AR9285 work on freebsd-9, but there's been a lot of work in
>> -HEAD to improve features and stability.
>>
>> Please consider updating to -HEAD.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> On 22 May 2013 13:34, Patrick Proniewski <patpro at patpro.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if it's the right mailing list for this question, but as mini PCIe wifi cards are mostly used in mobile computers, I give it a try:
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a half mini PCIe wifi card supporting hostapd mode. I might be wrong, but it appears that only Atheros chipset can be used with hostpad. I've found many recent Atheros based half mini PCIe wifi cards, but according to `man ath` on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p2 they are not supported:
>>>
>>> Atheros AR5B95 AR9285 802.11B/G/N Half Mini PCI-E Card
>>> Atheros AR5B93 WiFi 802.11n draft Wireless Half Mini PCI-E Card
>>> Atheros AR5BHB92-H AR9280 802.11 b/g/n Wireless PCIe Half Size Mini Card
>>>
>>> It would be great if someone could give some pointers to half mini PCIe WIFI cards working in hostapd mode on FreeBSD 9.1.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Patrick
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