Re: [Announce] Intel Wireless Multicomm 3200 WiFi driver

[Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 00:00 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:27 +0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the 11n configuration on these devices? Do they have 2
> >> streams? Or are they just 1 stream?
> >
> > It has 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2 on for both 20MHz and 40MHz channels.
> 
> Thanks -- BTW so this to me reads as number of TX/RX chains, but how
> many streams does the device have? For example a 2-stream device can
> be used in a 1x1 configuration.
> 
> An example of our 1-stream device would be the Atheros AR9285, so
> hardware-wise it only supports up to MCS 7.
> 
> Will some of these devices be 1-stream or are they all 2-stream?

The one I have should be a 2 streams one. What does 1 stream version buy
if we have already built the 2 streams (configurable for 1x1) version?

Thanks,
-yi