WiFi

Tue Jan 27 20:21:46 UTC 2015

On 01/27/2015 09:30 AM, poma wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks poma, I had a look at those pages and they don't seem to help me 
much (unless I have read them wrong) as they seem to be specifically 
aimed at router support rather than adapter support which is my issue. 
The Belkin router I have also appears to not be supported by wrt either, 
so it looks like I might be behind the 8 ball on both fronts.

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