WiFi
poma
pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 22:30:58 UTC 2015
On 26.01.2015 21:47, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 01/25/2015 11:46 PM, poma wrote:
>> On 25.01.2015 00:05, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> ...
>>> pci adapter. The only problem I have now is that it is very hard to get
>>> devices that support Linux from retail stores.
>> Help yourself with these two references to search:
>> http://wireless.kernel.org
>> https://wikidevi.com
> Thanks poma, I looked at those pages and they highlight a major problem.
> Looking at the list of Adapters on those pages they are either USB which
> I am having issues with, some of which are using the rtl8812AU chipset,
> pci devices which are using the rtl8812AU chipset (which is the chipset
> for which the driver won't make the kernel) or a BCM chipset which is
> listed on the driver pages as not being supported by the BCM driver, and
> there is one pci adapter using a BCM chipset that is not listed at all
> as far as I can see. So its looking like 802.11ac is still not properly
> supported yet in Linux, which is a bit disappointing considering it has
> been available since 2013 (assuming the Wikipedia page I looked at has
> not misprinted the date of release, which could be on the cards as the
> page says 802.11ad was released in 2012).
IEEE 802.11ac, perhaps on some SoCs supported via DD-WRT & OpenWrt.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
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