half-mini PCIe wifi card and hostpad mode?

[Adrian Chadd]

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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