Thanks for your suggestions! I ended up grabbing an RaLink RT3572 for $12 on Amazon with the AE1000: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VYH1UE/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00 Not a problem kicking it in to monitoring mode with the rt2x00 driver, and it is reporting proper signal strengths unlike my ar9280. Perfect. - George On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Mark Davis <marked86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:14 PM, George Nychis <gnychis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been using the Sony UWA-BR100 (AR9280) with ath9k_htc, and there > > is clearly a bug with reporting signal strengths which I need to be > > correct. I've reported the bug, but this might not be fixed in time > > for a deadline I have coming up, and the bug is in the firmware out of > > my reach. > > > > So I was wondering if anyone knows of any alternative USB dual-band > > wireless cards that support monitoring mode in Linux. I'd _greatly_ > > appreciate it... doesn't need to be Atheros based. > > > > - 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 > > http://bit.ly/LzgJiA > > I primarily use AWUS050NH / AWUS051NHs. Dell Wireless 1450 adapters > are also decent (though they probably perform better in 2.4GHz than > 5GHz). I'm not really a fan of AR9170 hardware. > > -mark -- 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
