Ubiquiti SR71-E (ar9280) support? Or, maybe, other Mini-PCIe high-power WiFi card?

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 16/05/2011 12:52, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-wireless.
>
>   I want to upgrade my Router/WiFI AP from Soekris net5501 with
> MiniPCI WiFi (Senao high-power card with Atheros 5413) to net6501,
> which requires Mini-PCIe card.
>
>  It seems, that only Mini-PCIe card with high output power (more than
>  standard 100mW) is Ubiquiti SR71-E with Atheros 9280 chipset.
>
>   As it is 802.11n with 2x2 MIMO, and there is no official support for
>  802.11n in FreeBSD, I have several questions:
>
>   (1) Will it work as 802.11g in 8-STABLE?
Havent got that particular card, I have
ath0 at pci0:4:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x10671a3b chip=0x002a168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device     = 'Atheros AR5B91 Wireless Network Adapter (0001)'
    class      = network

which says its
(13:23:25 <~>) 0 $ grep 9280 /var/run/dmesg.boot
ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0

which has been running as my home AP for a while now on 8.2-RELEASE

(13:27:30 <~>) 0 $ ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
    ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
    status: running
jhary at ostracod
(13:28:32 <~>) 0 $ ifconfig wlan1
wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
    inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
    inet6 fe80::224:23ff:fe07:fb5d%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
    inet6 2001:xxx:xxxx:3::1 prefixlen 64
    nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
    status: running
    ssid vhoff channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:24:23:07:fb:5d
    regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 3
    TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 20 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme
    burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs


Hope that helps,
Vince
>   (2) As far as I can see, 802.11n is semi-supported in HEAD. Will it
>   be ready in 9.0-RELEASE? Will it be backported to 8-STABLE branch?
>
>   And almost unrelated question: am I right, that Ubiquiti SR71-E is
>  now only card, which is more powerful than standard ones and has
>  Mini-PCIe connection? There were a lot of high-power (up to 1000mW)
>  cards with Mini-PCI, but I can not find anything for Mini-PCIe.
>
>   Thank you.
>