USB wireless AP?

[Martes G Wigglesworth]

I would reference the link that I am about to list.

I would also reference googling the topic, since there are quite a few
USB wifi adapters that work, however, it seems a bit more difficult to
find people who are using them as AP media.

The atheros reference pdfs reference a different chipset than what we
usually deal with on BSD ath driver. (5512, or some such.)

I forgot about the prism based cards, which the following link is in
references.

http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2006-06/msg00034.html

The SWEEX model LW053 is also compatible, however, it uses the rawlink
RT2500USB chipset, so I am not sure how the access point functionality
will work, since it may be suceptible to the previously referenced
warnings within the driver manpage.  

Is there a particular reason that the USB adapter concept is needed for
your application?

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 00:37 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 2008/4/22 Martes G Wigglesworth <mailinglists at mgwigglesworth.com>:
> > I always atheros-based cards/interfaces.  ath driver seems to be the
> >  defacto homegrown AP medium.
> 
> Thanks, can you recommend an ath-based USB card?
> 
> >  On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:18 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> >
> > > 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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