AzureWave AW-NE773

Overview
This is a dual-band device, and as is typical of Atheros retail units, examples seen all appear to have a World Roaming regulatory domain code set in the EEPROM.

This device is used in the Chrome CR-48 notebook (Chromebook).
 * Pictures from a CR-48 teardown

lspci -nnv dump
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002a] (rev 01) Subsystem: AzureWave AW-NE773 802.11abgn Wireless Half-size Mini PCIe Card [AR9280] [1a3b:1081] Physical Slot: 1 Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19 Memory at f1d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 Kernel driver in use: ath9k

dmesg output
pci 0000:05:00.0: [168c:002a] type 00 class 0x028000 pci 0000:05:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff 64bit] pci 0000:05:00.0: supports D1 pci 0000:05:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xf1d00000-0xf1d0ffff 64bit] pci 0000:05:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform ath9k 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60 ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 ath: Regpair used: 0x60 ieee80211 phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' ieee80211 phy3: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xffffc90007be0000, irq=19

cat /sys/kernel/ieee80211/phyX/ath9k/base_eeprom
mTOR ath9k # cat base_eeprom Major Version :        14 Minor Version :        16 Checksum :     11280 Length :      3256 RegDomain1 :        96 RegDomain2 :        31 TX Mask :         3 RX Mask :         3 Allow 5GHz :         1 Allow 2GHz :         1 Disable 2GHz HT20 :         0 Disable 2GHz HT40 :         0 Disable 5Ghz HT20 :         0 Disable 5Ghz HT40 :         0 Big Endian :         0 Cal Bin Major Ver :         0 Cal Bin Minor Ver :         7 Cal Bin Build :        13 OpenLoop Power Ctrl :         0 MacAddress : 48:5d:60:xx:xx:xx

RF Power
802.11a: 12 dBm at 54 Mbps / 17dBm at 6Mbps +/- 1 dBm 802.11b: 18 dBm at all rates +/- 1 dBm 802.11g: 15 dBm at 54Mbps / 17dBm at 6Mbps +/- 1 dBm 802.11n 5G HT20 : 9 dBm at MCS15 / 17dBm at MCS0 +/- 1 dBm 802.11n 5G HT40 : 9 dBm at MCS15 / 17dBm at MCS0 +/- 1 dBm 802.11n 2.4G HT20 : 10 dBm at MCS15 / 17dBm at MCS0 +/- 1 dBm 802.11n 2.4G HT40 : 9 dBm at MCS15 / 17dBm at MCS0 +/- 1 dBm

RF Sensitivity
802.11a: -67 dBm 802.11b: -78 dBm 802.11g: -67 dBm 802.11n: -67 dBm at HT20 MCS15 / -64 dBm at HT40 MCS15