Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:54:02 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB wireless adapter for hostapd? Message-ID: <87oaeyh53p.fsf@elk.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20151112201459.6545e263@planb> (Vladimir Botka's message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:14:59 %2B0100") References: <87a8rcnb15.fsf@elk.localnet> <20151112201459.6545e263@planb>
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Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:41:26 -0700 > Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote: > >> I am trying to set up a Raspberry Pi as an access point, but FreeBSD >> doesn't support hostap mode on the adapters (urtwn) that I have. Does >> anybody have any suggestions on where I could buy an adapter that >> FreeBSD does support hostap mode? Looking at the man pages seems to >> indicate that very few are supported for anything other than normal >> station mode. >> >> Thanks for any information. > > You are looking for adapters with HOSTAP capability [1] according > http://www.freebsd.cz/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html > > This report [1] is from old dongle D-Link DWL-G122 running as a client > [2,3] in FreeBSD 11.0 on imx6. I haven't tried, but according [1] it > should be possible to use it with hostap. > > JFYI, RT5370 (Tenda W311MI) and RT5592 (TP Link TL-WDN3200) don't work > for me in [4] and report error (below). But both adapters report HOSTAP > capability in Freebsd 10.2 i386 > > imx6 kernel: run0: firmware RT3071 ver. 0.33 loaded > imx6 wpa_supplicant[2164]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, val=0, > arg_len=0]: Operation not supported > imx6 wpa_supplicant[2164]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, val=0, > arg_len=0]: Operation not supported > imx6 wpa_supplicant[2164]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING > > Just to be sure. You know that USB adapters don't support 11n at the > moment? No, I didn't know that. I was wondering why my speeds weren't very good right now. I bought a couple of Ralink RT3071 based adapters and they seem to work reasonably well, but not as fast as I was hoping. I am getting only about 12Mb/sec now according to iperf3, but I don't really need faster speeds. Thanks for your information. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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