USB wireless AP?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 22 20:18:24 UTC 2008


Boris Kochergin wrote:
> Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards 
> listed there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a discouraging 
> comment about using them for access points in the man page, though:
> 
> CAVEATS
>     The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the transmit
>     speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes.

That's too bad - it seems the Linsys' card is supported by ural. I 
looked around for Linux information on the same topic, and given the 
problems they have, I think I'll even settle for IBSS. Are there any 
practical differences between HOSTAP and IBSS when used by a very small 
number of users?


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