Is Atheros AR9285 usable in AP mode ?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!

The Atheros 11n support won't be ready until sometime later on in the
year. it certainly won't be ready for 9.0-RELEASE.

You can tinker with it (option ATH_ENABLE_11N) but you have to disable
AMPDU TX negotiation (ifconfig wlanX -ampdutx) before you can use it.
AMPDU-RX works fine, so it can receive aggregate packets.

If you'd like to test out 11n support, please feel free to flip the
above on and use it as an 11n STA/AP. (I use an AR9160 at home as an
11n AP!) but you won't be able to use TX aggregation yet. That's what
I'm currently working on.


Adrian

On 15 August 2011 16:34, Dmitry Kolosov <onyx at z-up.ru> wrote:
>> Ok. So it's not that. I'll fire up an AR9285 in hostap mode soon and
>> let you know how it goes.
>
> Hello Adrian!
> I'm planning to use advantages of 802.11N. I have bought ath-based pci card
> for that reason, to use it in hostap mode. Here it is:
>
> ath1: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xff9b0000-0xff9bffff irq 23 at device 2.0 on pci5
> ath1: [ITHREAD]
> ath1: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>
> ath1 at pci0:5:2:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x3a781186 chip=0x0029168c
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>    class      = network
>
> But now i'm on 8-STABLE, and 11N mode not working at all, and i just downed
> that card, so i'm waiting for fbsd 9, and hope 11N will work fine in hostap
> and client mode. As 11N client i'm planning to use this mini-pcie card on my
> laptop:
> ath0: <Atheros 9285> mem 0xd7100000-0xd710ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci6
> ath0: [ITHREAD]
> ath0: AR9285 mac 192.2 RF5133 phy 14.0
> FYI, 9285 works very well on 8-STABLE, but only for 11g modes.
>
> And the questions are:
> * will my 9280 card work in _11N_hostap_mode after 9-RELEASE?
> * will my 9285 card work in _11N_client_mode after 9-RELEASE?
>
> Thanks a lot for your work.
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