On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 03:47:59PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> Would you please recommend a card that has one of the radio chips
> that support 5G, fits into the ALIX, and is known to work well?
In my experience AR9280 chips work well. Cards with this chip
exist in MiniPCI format as well as PCIe.
I am using a 9280 MiniPCI card in my ALIX which shows up as:
athn0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Atheros AR9280" rev 0x01: irq 11
athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 16, address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
0:14:0: Atheros AR9280
0x0000: Vendor ID: 168c Product ID: 0029
I forgot where I got it from.
A good site to search is https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros
It looks like you want one of the 22 adapters linked at 'AR9220' which
is noted to be a "AR9280 w/ PCI IF".
Note that you'll need 2 antennas to use 11n mode. My ALIX case does not
have a second hole drilled yet so I'm running it in 11a mode for now.
