Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 06:27:15 +0000 From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB wireless adapter for hostapd? Message-ID: <86r3kolosc.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87a8rcnb15.fsf@elk.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:41:26 -0700") References: <87a8rcnb15.fsf@elk.localnet>
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes: > 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. I've had success with this: http://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/accessories/wifi-dongles/wifi-dongle-nano-usb/?search=wifi Basically, you need to find things with specific chipsets that support hostedap. Ralink 5370 is one of them. However, I've had trouble getting more than 80KB/s out (although I can max out the in at ~1MB/s) of this on my RPi1. I'm not sure where the problem is because I just don't know enough about it, perhaps someone else knows how to debug/tune it.
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