supported mini pcie wireless cards

blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 13:35:48 UTC 2016


Hi Adrian

One more question about Atheros chips.

Is this M.2 Atheros chip supported?

Qualcomm® Atheros Killer™ Wireless-AC 1535 Dual Band 2x2 AC +BT M.2 2230

I have a mac but it's such a pain for so many things, I want to get a
barebones notebook and just add supported parts.

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:33 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:

> np!
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 30 September 2016 at 11:07, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ah Thank you!
> >
> > The card should be arriving next week. I'll keep the list posted.
> >
> > Best,
> > Owen
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016, 01:58 Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I need to update the ath_hal manpage.
> >>
> >> The AR9462 and AR9485 both work. If they don't work, I can totally fix
> >> them for you - I have all of the atheros reference hardware and
> >> drivers here.. :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -adrian
> >>
> >>
> >> On 30 September 2016 at 08:37, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Oh, awesome Adrian thanks. I saw you writing a lot on the forums about
> >> > WIFI
> >> > cards.
> >> >
> >> > Initially I wanted to get the intel but I think the intel only
> supported
> >> > station mode. I asked this on the forum but I would like to ask here
> >> > just to
> >> > have it.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > How did you find a particular hardware component being supported? For
> >> > example; let's look at the wifi cards. I was looking if this device is
> >> > supported
> >> >
> >> > Atheros AR9462; googling lead me to the auth_hal man page but when I
> >> > look in
> >> > there I don't see any reference to the AR9462 so how can I be sure the
> >> > device will be supported?
> >> >
> >> > For example ath_hal seems to go up to about 9380 and newer devices
> >> > aren't
> >> > supported?
> >> >
> >> > So in a situation like this, let's say I'd like to exhaust more
> channels
> >> > before sending off an email to some FreeBSD mailing list.
> >> >
> >> > How could I further do tests w/o say buying the device online, having
> it
> >> > shipped, testing and possibly returning. The main reason is shipping
> to
> >> > my
> >> > location is often more expensive than the products that I am trying to
> >> > find.
> >> >
> >> > Best,
> >> > Owen
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:00 PM, Adrian Chadd <
> adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> all are supported.
> >> >>
> >> >> -a
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On 30 September 2016 at 02:10, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have a macbook pro 11,3 but I removed the broadcomm chip that
> came
> >> >> > with
> >> >> > it because it's not supported.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I wanted to check to see which of these chips have the best support
> >> >> > on
> >> >> > FreeBSD.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Bointec DPE809-AA included Atheros AR9485 and AR3012 is a 802.11bgn
> >> >> > 1x1,plus Bluetooth 4.0 solution.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 AC 7260 7260NGW
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Bointec DPE909-AA Atheros ® AR9462
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There's one intel and two that have atheros chipsets inside. Can I
> >> >> > get
> >> >> > some
> >> >> > help from this list to find the recommended device. I am currently
> >> >> > running
> >> >> > FreeBSD 11RC3.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Best,
> >> >> > Owen
> >> >> > _______________________________________________
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> >> >
> >> >
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