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Re: [RFC 5/6] ath9k: enable DFS pulse detection

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On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 07:03:10 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Nope, what I'm saying is that someone's likely just copy/paste'd the
> "we support x and y!" from some marketing material and then suggested
> people use linux/openwrt/ath9k without really looking at it.
I'm still curious how they got the Apple access point through the FCC
testing back then. Well, I guess we'll never know for sure.
 
> There were plenty of people advertising the AR9160 as a "3x3 MIMO"
> when it's a 2x2 stream device with 3 antennas. I know this confused me
> when I started tinkering with wifi stuff.
AFAIK the 3x3 really just stands for the amount of tx X rx chains [and
not antennas]. So if the hardware has 3 tx and rx chains it can be sold
as a "3x3" device even if does not support 3 streams.

> Anyway, we're getting off-track here.
we can stop anytime.
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