From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 21 15:52:39 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABAFA1B406 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:52:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from filter01.peakinternet.com (filter01.peakinternet.com [207.55.16.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 448BE195 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:52:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org ([207.55.16.112]) by filter01.peakinternet.com ({e1c81c21-e4c4-4528-aa90-7a27869c545a}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20151021154859884_0000 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:59 -0700 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B785A4D146 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EBB75580E for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zmail-mta02.peak.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zmail-mta02.peak.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id c6NEfLoOK3GF for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailproxy-lb-06.peak.org (mailproxy-lb-06.peak.org [207.55.17.96]) by zmail-mta02.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2CC4D146 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlj by elk.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZovdJ-00009x-Fe for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:57 -0700 From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB wireless adapter for hostapd? References: <87a8rcnb15.fsf@elk.localnet> <1445402022.15630.10.camel@michaeleichorn.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:48:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1445402022.15630.10.camel@michaeleichorn.com> (Michael B. Eichorn's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:33:42 -0400") Message-ID: <871tcomdcm.fsf@elk.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-DLP-ENABLED: 207.55.16/22 X-MAG-OUTBOUND: peakinternet.redcondor.net@207.55.16/22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:52:39 -0000 "Michael B. Eichorn" writes: > On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 20:41 -0700, Carl Johnson 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. > > Perhaps run(4)? Never used it myself as I prefer PCIe bus networking but > it mentions hostAP. Thanks, I had already seen run(4) but the problem is knowing which adapters contain that chipset and where I could buy one. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org