From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Hacker Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:18:41 +0600 Subject: [ath9k-devel] 802.11n PCI-E 300Mbps with AP mode? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110714041841.GA28350@infinet.ru> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org In addition to Adrian's words. If you occasionaly found a PCI-E card it is very possible what it will be a miniPCI-E module already installed into adapter. :) Best regards, Alex. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:00:45AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 14 July 2011 07:42, Grant wrote: > >> Again, anything with an AR9280 on board will be fine. Some of the > >> antenna arrangements though are a bit .. special. > > > > I'm told this one fits the bill: > > > > http://www.tp-link.com/products/productDetails.asp?pmodel=TL-WN951N > > > > It is said to have a AR5008 chip. ?Can anyone confirm that this card > > works in AP mode? > > The AR5008 series stuff will "work", but not well. Ath9k doesn't focus > on AR5008 support. > > An adapter card isn't a big deal; the underlying interface for > PCIe/mini-PCIe is the same (ie, "PCIe".) > The adapter cards are just a PCIe socket<->mini-PCIe socket converter. > > The nice thing about going the adapter route is you get access to a > much larger set of wireless NICs out there. :) > > > Adrian