Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:18521 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750965AbZEZFXz (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 01:23:55 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:23:57 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:52:46 +0530 From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan To: Galen P Zink CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Ath9k Quality / STBC Message-ID: <20090526052246.GG4584@vasanth-laptop> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 04:48:25AM +0530, Galen P Zink wrote: > What's the current status of ath9k in terms of quality? good. > access point? Works fine, hostpad needs to be used for AP mode. >Are all the Atheros 9xxx series chipsets supported? All 9xxx family chipsets available in market are supported. > > The only feature I see that's missing is STBC. It seems like STBC is a > pretty useful feature with 802.11n MIMO and the three(!) rx capability > of many of the Atheros cards. Is there a reason STBC is not > implemented? Yeah, it does not have STBC support. There is no reason for not having this feature, we have a plan for this one. > Has anybody done any comparisons? No. Vasanth