From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Nov 15 03:54:20 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 71A1CA2EEF5 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 03:54:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22d.google.com (mail-ig0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C3CA1641 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 03:54:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by igl9 with SMTP id 9so38820953igl.0 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:54:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=b/kWeNVWwF+cLq0Ga+FIeKmQyOYgLBi0ptl7hOx2MhM=; b=BwYsyTC906HJi4CHInKGi8x1/EkXedEfBCWklD+Crgne6FYp37VO6/EKe2K4wq4oFd Ter6bPeXdiWihGmOT+dqdDmCb5nCWDfMKa8wqbgPz1S4YzsXbA7GKxsYRTzYmOn63CSv p4sowJZ92hzom05r+ecLeXLH/krHRWI7xEjf6bFyMm1ys+rDFJDFh7rXgKalNtJ4RNOJ /NG8AYo17Xxgj+0e4wWLzgHqhIL3l/68qUJM/BsB2qJFtVaAxpUcbzd7z7r9G6OSF3lK H+OgJdPYygCd5YH6UgKZitql337z7IRZNhTv7uZWjUOGJOUV0BN4X6Zl36F+j2uLgrfq U81w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.155.41 with SMTP id vt9mr9889115igb.22.1447559659672; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:54:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.217.196 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:54:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87oaeyh53p.fsf@elk.localnet> References: <87a8rcnb15.fsf@elk.localnet> <20151112201459.6545e263@planb> <87oaeyh53p.fsf@elk.localnet> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:54:19 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: USB wireless adapter for hostapd? From: Adrian Chadd To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 03:54:20 -0000 hiya, The urtwn driver is getting some hostap love right now. That's likely your best bet in the medium term. -a On 12 November 2015 at 20:54, Carl Johnson wrote: > Vladimir Botka writes: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:41:26 -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. >> >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"