I am searching for a dual-band 802.11n USB wireless adapter with an Atheros chipset for Linux use. I have checked the Linux Wireless products page, etc. After doing some searching, I found that some older 802.11n devices use the UB81/82/83 Atheros hardware with the AR9001U, and some of the newer 802.11n Atheros hardware supports AR9002U with the UB94. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the main difference is the AR9001U was 11n-draft, and the AR9002U is 11n-standard. Other than that, both are dual-band and seem to support most of the same? http://www.atheros.com/media/product/product_78_file1.pdf I did a bunch of searching for products with the AR9001U and AR9002U, and found some with the AR9001U such as the Netgear WNDA3100 and D-Link DWA-160. However, I think that Rev.B of the DWA-160 actually uses Ralink now. I'd be hesitant to purchase one someone and end up with Rev.B. In terms of AR9002U, I am not finding much of anything. Just reference designs for the UB94, which I can't find any products that use it. Apparently, Luis and others asked this question a little while back, and the response was sometime in Q3 2010 from Stephen Chen: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/51660 Now that we're on Q2 of 2011, are there any products on the market with the AR9002U/UB94 that anyone has seen? If an AR9002U/UB94 is available, I'd go for it over the AR9001U. It seems like ath9k has the needed support for the AR9280. Any feedback would be really helpful. If I can't find anything with the AR9002U, I'll pull the trigger on the WNDA3100 unless after some more searching I find something better. Thanks! George -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
