Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:54:19 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB wireless adapter for hostapd? Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=w41deJNHu9n%2B%2BbrRk0qT-DH=FLzMWnyKd2OL51Y8ZFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87oaeyh53p.fsf@elk.localnet> References: <87a8rcnb15.fsf@elk.localnet> <20151112201459.6545e263@planb> <87oaeyh53p.fsf@elk.localnet>
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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 <carlj@peak.org> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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