Recommended WiFi / Bluetooth modules for embedded ARM

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:59:01PM -0500, Brendan A R Sechter wrote:
> > 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

ugen1.6: <Ralink> at usbus1
run0: <1.0> on usbus1
run0: MAC/BBP RT5390 (rev 0x0502), RF RT5370 (MIMO 1T1R), address 00:0f:55:a8:da:83

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

My guess is that they are part of the same set.
Since my sticks are nano I can't easily open them to lookup on the chip.

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B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.