On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:21:18 -0800 Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> That's right. The atheros devices have one MAC and one radio. There > was a module which used one MAC and two radios (one 2ghz and one 5ghz) > but only one was active at a time. since there was only one MAC, you > couldn't even do dual-band concurrent operation with that. > > There's nothing _stopping_ a manufacturer putting two NICs on one > board. There's some dual-AR9220 boards out there which have two > AR9220's on a single mini-PCI card. But they require a slightly > modified board - the second NIC has its IDSEL pin on another (unused? > gpio?) mini-PCI pin. So if you plug it into a normal device you only > see one AR9220. Yes, FreeBSD-HEAD runs on the particular dev board and > drives those NICs correctly. > > So far, I don't think anyone has made a public, "correct" dual band > single NIC - which involves putting a PCI or PCIe bridge chip on a > card, as well as two AR9xxx chips. Hi guys! Lev, it seems it's time for you to get some dual-11n-nic router (like f.e. DIR-825) and join to mips community :) > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Aleksandr Rybalko <r...@freebsd.org> _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
