Greetings everyone:
I extracted one of the two identical mini-pci card radios from the DLink
DI774 Rev A Router which is a Mini-PCI card based on the Atheros AR5001X+
consisting of the 5212, 5111 and 2111 chips. The chipset consists of the
following:
AR5111 5-GHz Radio-on-a-Chip (RoC)
Dynamic IF Dual Conversion architecture provides super-heterodyne
performance at Zero IF prices
Support for IEEE 802.11a standard
Integrated second-generation power amplifier (PA) and low-noise amplifier
(LNA)
External PA and/or LNA can be used for special applications
Enhancements to the transmit and receive chains
Eliminates all RF and most IF filters; no external voltage-controlled
oscillators (VCOs) or surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters needed
AR5212 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor
Supports both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz RoCs
Smart Select technology automatically chooses the RF technology (a/g/b),
data rate, error-correction mode, radio channel, power-management method,
and security technology best suited to any situation
PCI 2.3 and PC Card 7.1 host interfaces with DMA support
Integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
Serial EEPROM, LEDs, GPIOs peripheral interfaces
Low-power operational and sleep modes
AR2111 2.4-GHz Radio-on-a-Chip (RoC)
Support for IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g
Operates in the 2.400 to 2.500 GHz
Advanced wideband Receiver with Best Path Sequencer for better range and
multipath resistance than conventional equalizer-based designs
I have it hooked up to only one of the antenna connectors on my Dell
Inspiron 8200 notebook which is about 5 feet from my Netgear FWAG114
Atheros A/G Router. I have tried using the DLink DWLAG520, Netgear
WAG311/WAG511 drivers and on all three of the drivers, it seems to only see
the G Access point as well as the B from neighbors but it is not seeing the
A of the Netgear at all using the Dlink and Netgear utilities to scan which
seems to scan only up to channel 11 and not any of the A channels. Does
anyone know what the problem is and is there a way to get the A side to
work? Thanks.
Cheers,
Vince
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