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Il giorno 27/lug/2013, alle ore 13:46, Weedy <[email protected]> ha scritto: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM, camden lindsay > <[email protected]> wrote: >> When looking at routers for high noise applications, keep in mind the >> frequent complaints of wireless instability on routers with atheros chipsets >> due to a number of known and unknown driver bugs. >> >> Both of the above routers (and it seems _most_ of the routers supporting >> dual band that are reasonably priced) use Atheros chipsets. >> >> See https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/9654 for more information on Atheros >> bugs. > > While those are obviously serious bugs you don't EVER want to run > non-Atheros hardware on linux.[1] > You might think ath9k is bad because it's failing on that linksys > hardware but it's orders of magnitude better then any other drivers we > have. OpenWRT is always advancing, we might get by with binary drivers > if we never updated anything (userland and kernel wise). But that's > not how we roll. > Broadcom was shit FOR YEARS until b43 got decent. And I think Realtek > still has issues with lockups or slow link speeds. To be fair Intel is > great for clients and ok for APs, just don't try and do anything fancy > in monitor mode. > > And even with all of this, we still have nbd who practically works for > Atheros fixing bugs and writing support for new chipsets. None of the > other drivers really have the backing atheros does in kernel. If you > report a bug well (like with a easy to trigger test case) it will > probably get fixed within a week or two. Good luck with that kind of > turn around on the binary blob drivers, and most of the other OSS > drivers will still keep you waiting a month assuming they don't lose > the patch. > > I have one broadcom based router that's been retired WRT54GS, > everything since that is atheros based or I'm buying atheros cards for > it (multiple WNDR3700s, WDR4300 at home[new favourite, thing is on > sale for under $70 constantly 3stream 450mbs], wl-500g atheros > retrofit, TEW-652BRP, rs-pros with SR-71As, Laguna GW2388 with > SR-71As, every laptop or desktop I own gets atheros minipcie cards, > etc etc). > > Atheros drivers _might_ suck. But you never want to deal with the > levels of suck involved with the other chipsets in production.</rant> > > > [1] the exception to this being USB devices where atheros is hard to > find. Ralink has a good nbd equivalent writing drivers, I believe his > name is Larry Finger. > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
