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So you want to play with Wi-Fi? It’s dangerous to make frames alone. Take this

by Sukera on 4/8/23, 7:14 AM with 7 comments

  • by M95D on 4/8/23, 6:56 PM

    > 3.1.1 ath9k/ath9k-htc (The good Atheros)

    > [...] Another major limitation of the hardware this driver supports is its limitation to 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g, with most devices also supporting n and/or draft-n.

    This is wrong. ath9k is not limited to 2.4GHz. I have two dual-band ath9k cards with 5GHz support: 168c:002a (AR9280) and 168c:0030 (AR9380). Both are still available on ali.

  • by tony-allan on 4/8/23, 11:35 AM

    Why not use dedicated hardware such as an ESP32 microcontoller?