Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM

Brendan A R Sechter bsechter at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 18:59:02 UTC 2015


> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:01:59 -0700
> Subject: Re: Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM
projects?
> From: gobble.wa at gmail.com
> To: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
>
> If you are planning on using hostapd, I'm pretty sure the only
> available option (USB, anyway) is the Ralink RT5390 .

> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:07:23 +0100
> From: ticso at cicely7.cicely.de
> To: sgeos at hotmail.com
> CC: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org; freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM
projects?
>
> I'd bought some nano WiFi USB on AliExpress marketed for Rasberry usage.
> They are Ralink RT5390 based,

I'm seeing a lot of RT5370 USB dongles, but I'm having less luck finding
the RT5390.  The following link claims "the RT5390 is the PCIe equivalent
of the RT5370 USB".
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2159102

If this is true, any of the RT5370 dongles will work.  Correct?

-Brendan


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