USB wireless AP?

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 08:46:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> 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.

In HOSTAP mode, you can have one roaming STA, or you can have several
STAs if they stay in almost same TX/RX condition.  This limitation is
primarily due to ural (same applies to rum) hardware does not have
per-packet (or at least per-peer) TX try/fail counters.  This can't be
fixd by driver.

Best Regards,
sephe

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