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#1 2009-04-21 18:20:54
- sol-invictus
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extend list for 802.11e
hi!
i'm searching a wlan-usb stick which supports 802.11e but i couldn't find enough information about it... i liked this list and its features (selecting connection or vendor, etc.) so i wanted to suggest a selection for supported standards too 
anyway, does someone know an wlan-usb stick with ieee 802.11e support under arm-linux?
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#2 2009-04-21 21:43:03
Re: extend list for 802.11e
I think this is the moment to tell you about another search feature of the site.
if you click here, you will get another search page. This one also contains the possibility to search on any term you want in the freesearch box.
As for your specific request: the ieee802.11e standard is not actually advertised that often. Allthough quite a number of devices and drivers do support it, as you can read about here.
I'm not sure which ones are also available for arm-linux, but I think this should help you finding one.
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#3 2009-04-27 15:20:58
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Re: extend list for 802.11e
@hjheins
thank you for pointing out this search-feature!
the document from hp you refered to is very old already, it's from 2007-07-25 - but there where some usb-supporting chipsets which support 802.11e WLAN QoS.
as written there the ralink rt2570 supports it. so searching this page for it i found 2 devices with the rt2570 driver (Hantech WG-100U and MSI US54G), but both are not really available anymore...
so my question now is regarding the open-source ralink drivers: there is a rt2570 driver, there is a rt 2x00 driver ant there is a rt73 driver - so are all of them supporting 802.11e QoS? what is the difference?
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#4 2009-04-28 23:24:19
Re: extend list for 802.11e
Hello Sol-invictus,
As far as I know, all fairly developed drivers (and thus also the underlying hardware) support 802.11e.
So; Intel, Atheros (=Mad-WiFi ng), Ralink, and in the future probably also Broadcom.
At the moment, if you want a usb device, you can go for a Ralink I guess, as both Intel and Atheros have no driver for usb devices.
So I guess you are left with Ralink.
Basically everything that's newer than the rt2500 will work (so also the rt61, rt73 and rt8x series).
I guess there are quite some devices like that available. The easiest to find will probably be a device based on the rt73 (also known as rt2573).
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#5 2009-08-27 09:43:51
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Re: extend list for 802.11e
Thank you for your search feature. I'm not sure which ones are also support for arm-linux, but I think this should help you finding one.
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