Recommended PCIe Wireless Card for FBSD as Access Point

[Adrian Chadd]

On 24 January 2015 at 03:47, Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de> wrote:
> The micro server has a free empty PCIe2 x16(8,4,1) slot. I want to mount a
>> PCIe wireless card into this slot and add Access Point as an extra service
>> to this machine. I'm aware of chapter 31.3.6. with title FreeBSD Host
>> Access Points out of the FreeBSD handbook. So next to fit into the slot and
>> to be supported by FreeBSD 10+ generally, the card should also be able to
>> support HOSTAP.
>>
>> Can someone recommend me a wireless card that would fulfill the
>> requirements? I would very much appreciate your advice.
>
> I haven’t tried it in AP mode, but I’m otherwise very happy with the TP-Link TL-WN881ND PCIe card (168c:002d, AR9227, about 14 Euros).  TP-Link seems to use Atheros chips predominantly, so it’s always a good bet.

Ugh, can someone please keep hitting me (gently) until I commit
something to force a full reset after the NF calibration fails?

That'll work around the issues in hostap mode with the AR9227/AR9287
going deaf.. :(

Thanks,



-a