Re: ar9170 DWA 160A

Re: ar9170 DWA 160A

[Chunkeey]

"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:

> We have these listed on ar9170 wiki page as under Dlink DWA160A:
> 
> 0x07d1:0x3c10
> 0x0846:0x9010
> 
> A user just reported thy purchased DWA160 by mistake thinking it was
> the same but it turns out it has some other wireless chipset.

hmm, did you check D-Link's product & support side?
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DWA-160

lists two different revisions:
- DWA 160A (usbid 0x07d1:0x3c10)  ar9170 chip
- DWA 160B (usbid 0x07d1:0x3c11)  rt2870 chip


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> Do any of you have a DWA160A that is claimed by ar9170 or should
> we remove this from the list?

http://www.ubuntu-forum.de/artikel/45079/kompilierungsfehler-compat-wireless-hilfe-beim-beheben.html
"@Fremdkoeperfalle: [...] mein D-Link DWA -160 funktioniert." => ~ "my D-LINK DWA-160 works."
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ar9170 DWA 160A

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

We have these listed on ar9170 wiki page as under Dlink DWA160A:

0x07d1:0x3c10
0x0846:0x9010

A user just reported thy purchased DWA160 by mistake thinking it was
the same but it turns out it has some other wireless chipset. Do any
of you have a DWA160A that is claimed by ar9170 or should we remove
this from the list?

  Luis

Re: ar9170 DWA 160A

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 16:46 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> We have these listed on ar9170 wiki page as under Dlink DWA160A:
> 
> 0x07d1:0x3c10
> 0x0846:0x9010
> 
> A user just reported thy purchased DWA160 by mistake thinking it was
> the same but it turns out it has some other wireless chipset. Do any
> of you have a DWA160A that is claimed by ar9170 or should we remove
> this from the list?

The D-Link site doesn't mention DWA160A or DWA-160A at all.  It has
DWA-160 only.  When downloading the drivers, there is a choice between
"DWA-160" and "DWA-160_REVB".  The former has Atheros drivers, the later
has rt2870.

I guess the original "DWA-160" was "rev A", so it could have transformed
to "DWA-160A" somewhere.  That said, the online retailers sell "DWA-160"
and not "DWA-160A".

I think we can write that DWA-160 rev A is supported by ar9170 and
DWA-160 rev B is supported by rt2870 in the staging tree.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin