Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM projects?

[Waitman Gobble]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Trevor Roydhouse <trev at sentry.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> For WiFi, given my issues with a USB WiFi dongle stalling with the RPi B+
> (if_urtwn driver), I used one of those $US 10-12 pocket wireless N routers
> (the size of a thumb drive) sourced from eBay which connects to the ethernet
> port, is powered from a USB port, and joins the WiFi network as a client.
> Works well.
>
> --
> Trevor Roydhouse
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If you are planning on using hostapd, I'm pretty sure the only
available option (USB, anyway) is the Ralink RT5390 .

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