I’d like to replace default Realtek card that comes with Orin Nano. I want to use it as hotspot and publish images and pointclouds with high frequency. Realtek card can only go up to 130 Mbit/s speeds, which will bottleneck if you have larger pointclouds at nonzero hz.
I also tried Intel 8265NGW that I got lying around and got it working, but it too only got up to 130MBit/s
How is Intel Intel AX210? It seems from this page it does only support 2.4GHz in AP mode.
However, drivers need time in order to mature and get stable, so unless you are an expert in Linux kernel driver development you really should stick what your system and your kernel supports. Using cutting edge hardware requires you to backport drivers to older distribution kernel version, and you are going to fail unless you have years of experience.
So: yes, the hardware is there, but you shouldn’t use it.
It would be nice if Nvidia @dusty_nv shipped next generation of Jetsons with WiFi 6E cards, there are already 6E routers for 100-150$ available.
Also 10Gbps ethernet for some distributed computing like robotic simulations.
It would be nice if there was a forum-wide poll for features in next devices (devkits), these things (6E, 10Gbps ethernet) are not that expensive in grand scheme of things and it would future proof devices nicely.
Realtek chips are the wrong option for you. The prodct page says “WNFT-280AX will mainly support STA mode”, so only restricted AP mode support.
This one
has a Qualcom chip and “… supports STA mode and Soft AP Mode*” (* means local legal restrictions may apply).
But the Linux driver still needs about a year to mature.
Orin AGX does have 10G Ethernet. This carrier board
has 2 10G and 2 1G RJ45 ports.
Orin NX does not have enough intermal bandwith and computing power for 10G. 2.5G with an extra RTL8125B card works fine, however.
The one you linked has E-key, while Orin Nano and AGX Devkits has A-E keys for M2 wifi cards.
I guess if you have custom carrier boards, anything is possible, my post was mainly about existing devkits.
There are also sellers in US, I didn’t find anything in Europe, and have no clue how it is driver wise, but it was mentioned in OpenWRT forums two years ago so it might work.
Wrong. All DevKit have E-keyed slot - there are no A-keyed slots on any DevKit I know. The cards, however, have both A and E key notches, so they fit in both A and E slots.
Only cards can habe multiple keys (A/E and B/M). Slots ALWAYS have only one key - there are no slots that have both A and E or B and M key.
The “PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification” does describe this in great detail. Just read that. So that is fully ok.