On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: > While comparing the OrangePi Mini and the Banana Pro, I noticed that the > Banana Pro connects its wifi chip via SDIO whereas the OrangePi Mini > uses a USB connection. > > My naive understanding is that the BananaPro choice is better since the > A20 already provides the SDIO connection, whereas the OrangePi Mini ends > up needing a USB hub (an FE1.1s chip, apparently) where only 2 of the > 4 outputs is used.
Newer wifi is too fast for USB 2.0. For example 5Ghz or 11ac. Several vendors offer modules with the same footprint from 2.4Ghz 11g all the way up to 11ac + BT + GPS + NFC... Those modules use SDIO. If you only care about 2.4Ghz wifi the USB based modules are usually cheaper. > > Also, http://www.orangepi.org/orangepimini/index.html states: > > USB | 2 USB 2.0 host, 1 USB 2.0 OTG (all direct from A20 chip) > > but if I understand the schematics, that's not true since one of the > two USB host ports of the A20 gets fed to the FE1.1s hub. > Am I missing something? > > One more thing: I couldn't find schematics for the BananaPro. > Did I just not look at the right place, or does LeMaker really fail to > distribute that info (which would suck)? > > > Stefan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "linux-sunxi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Jon Smirl [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
