WiFi 6 (ax) adapter

Omnia hardware Omnia HW help
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Hi, where from did you get that riser? Is it mini pcie to mini pcie? As I see it has input for power supply as well?
Planning something like that with flexible cable and power supply input for Omnia from Turris OS 6.0.

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It’s a bit of a mess - as for the connectivity, it’s M.2 m-key off the SBC to mPCI-e, then the Qualcomm board has an mPCI-e to e-key The QCN9074 itself is e-key. The form factor and position of the heatsink on the Qualcomm reference design is such that you’ll have a hard time mounting it practically I think.

The power supply is 5V/12V dual Mean Well PSU. I forget the exact SKU - but 5V juices up the QCN9074 while 12V powers the SBC. I would not suggest running the QCN9074 off power from the USB rails of the A/E-key… likely not enough juice.

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I have used adapters successfully to adapt a desktop PCI-E RAID card to the omnia so you could theoretically do it with a WIFI card. I would avoid a ton of adapters though.

In other news I was looking for a card for my friends desktop and stumbled upon this. Can we get this to work in the Omnia???

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Yes this new Omnia 2022 looks insane. Has an LCD screen.

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Hello,
Any news for Wifi 6 card ?

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Sure, there are other threads on this topic.

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So it turns out that the Intel AX200 and probably AX210 supports AP mode under 2.4GHz. Used to be n only but with a recent firmware update it seems to support ax now.

Has anyone tried this?

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Those Intel cards are only M.2 format. They will not fit into Omnia.

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they can with minipcie adapters.

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Well I don´t know if it will really work via minipcie adapter, or not. If yes, price will be ¹ the same, but AsiaRF is 4x4 and Intel is only 2x2, so this is not very good idea, I think.

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there are minipcie versions of the ax210 such as WiFi 6E Mini PCIE Wi-Fi 6E WiFi Card 802.11AX Bluetooth 5.2 AX210 Wireless Card | eBay

I bought one to test. According to an OpenWrt user, it supports AP mode as well as WDS.

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Yes, but it is still 2x2 and the price is only little bit lower comparing to AsiaRF, which is 4x4, so there is no reason to buy Intel instead AsiaRF.

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Reason could be antennas.

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Maybe, but adding of 1 antenna is not very hard or expensive.

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I fully agree, but with second wi-fi and LTE is sometimes easier.

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Isn’t shipping expensive with AsiaRF?

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If you buy as a single purchaser yes. But if you make a collective purchase order, it becomes fairly cheap. I started two of these orders here on the forum and can only advise others to do the same.

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I can agree with ssdnvv.
Stable TOS6 is coming, and in HBL it is pretty stable ( at least for my needs), so there will be more and more peaople willing to upgrade to wifi 6. It shouldn´t be problem to find someone else for this.

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I would also be interested in a few cards… How much are the shipping costs? I mean if someone in Europe - for example - triggers a collective order, he must also send the cards to the others. Is that so much cheaper?

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I can share later on a complete calculation about all applicable costs, so you can judge on your own.

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