First let me say thank you for the reply and suggestions.
I have one of the newer Alix boards (I think) as from the factory it had the newest bios.
As to the power supply I have a 4.5Amp 16v Power supply From laptop, so I am pretty sure that is not the problem.
Funny the SR71-12 uses that same 9220 Chip that your card uses, I would not even worry to much about the N, if the G was good but even it sucks.
If you find that article again about the PC-Engine and the Power I would love to see it, as I am wondering if it has something to do with the PC-Engine's Mini-PCI slot not getting the power to the card even though there is even power from the power supply. _________________ Z3r0
First let me say thank you for the reply and suggestions.
I have one of the newer Alix boards (I think) as from the factory it had the newest bios.
As to the power supply I have a 4.5Amp 16v Power supply From laptop, so I am pretty sure that is not the problem.
Funny the SR71-12 uses that same 9220 Chip that your card uses, I would not even worry to much about the N, if the G was good but even it sucks.
If you find that article again about the PC-Engine and the Power I would love to see it, as I am wondering if it has something to do with the PC-Engine's Mini-PCI slot not getting the power to the card even though there is even power from the power supply.
Don't have much time on my hands right now and my google-fu doesn't seem to work today, all I could find was on their official site: http://pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm
Changes from ALIX.2C (the one I have)
"Add second POSCAP to ruggedize 3.3V rail for high power radio cards."
I guess you have a D version if you just got it anyway, so that should rule out this.. plus your power supply is way overkill for your box anyway. Myself I just have an 18V/0.8A supply, and it's running smooth.
Really no clue, bad card? Or driver issue. A quick google on your card SR71-12 says it's based on Atheros AR9160. So it might be different than mine. I really havent kept myself up to date with all these N-cards..
And here (http://store.netgate.com/SR71-12-80211bgn-MIMO-miniPCI-Card-P306C26.aspx) it reads: "Ubiquiti SR71-12: 802.11b/g/n MIMO miniPCI Card
Currently, this card only works with the Ubiquiti LiteStation SR71 board."
But that sounds a bit awkward.
My vote goes to driver/card issue, don't think I can help you any more then that. :/
I see that some of the sales places state the 9160, but they are wrong. So maybe again, the card you have is working as the drivers that DD-WRT team has put out function correctly with the 9160 Chip and NOT the 9220 chip.
I could get past that if I bought something that was odd, but being that the DD-WRT shop sells the card
and does not bother to support it, with software that is also charged for, pisses me off!
The even funnier thing is that if you take a look at the specs for the SR71-12 listed in the DD-WRT Shop page it states that its the:
Chipset: Atheros, AR9610 with DFS SUPPORT
But if you look at the picture very closely its actually the SR71-A card. I would of offered my card for testing but with the store stating that they 50 in stock, I have to guess they have one to test with and maybe make working drivers. _________________ Z3r0
Talk about a jungle of misinformation when it comes to these atheros chipsets and their respective drivers.
I'd be damn pissed too if I were you. Would be nice to see if any dd-wrt dev/admin/owner could step up and enlighten us a little bit here.. But I wouldn't bet on it, they are awfully shy those people it seems..
As this thread is about new builds I thought I'd mention a bug I've run into a couple of times now.
When I connect with PPTP VPN to the dd-wrt router from my android phone, all is fine as long as I only access local resources (anything inside the local network), but when I access the internet through the VPN, it seems the whole box goes down, and stops responding to anything (both data through the tunnel and for local machines). Only pulling the plug and restarting it gets it back up on it's feet again.
Happened three times so far. Seems easy to reproduce.
I guess I am a little dumb, I looked at the links, if I am reading it correct the 9220 chip is supported; so how did that answer my question about the card working with the DD-WRT Wireless Driver set that has to be purchased? _________________ Z3r0
I guess I am a little dumb, I looked at the links, if I am reading it correct the 9220 chip is supported; so how did that answer my question about the card working with the DD-WRT Wireless Driver set that has to be purchased?
No I don't think we're dumb. He just tried to explain it to us using as few key-strokes as possible. Maybe he thinks we are!
The way I have understood it is like this; the atheros wifi cards have a controller-chip and a radio-chip, and even though our cards might be the same 9220 or whatever version, their specs and hw/sw control routines can differ. Atleast thats what I understand from "one thing is the hw another the sw support of hw features!".
One would think that a 9220 is in fact the same as another 9220. But we have obviously proven that this is not the case. Funny isn't it?
Really don't know what to say. Starting to find it a bit funny, even though I understand your frustration. Especially when they sell your particular card as a supported card in their shop, talk about bumming people out.
OT here, but I always wondered if I can compile the svn nightlies x86 professional versions myself to try out new builds? Since they need activation I always thought you add some special code/kernel modules to it to make it operate, so in essence I wouldn't be able to compile it with full features. Or how does it work?