USB wireless adapter for hostapd?
Carl Johnson
carlj at peak.org
Fri Nov 13 04:57:21 UTC 2015
Vladimir Botka <vbotka at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:41:26 -0700
> Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You are looking for adapters with HOSTAP capability [1] according
> http://www.freebsd.cz/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html
>
> This report [1] is from old dongle D-Link DWL-G122 running as a client
> [2,3] in FreeBSD 11.0 on imx6. I haven't tried, but according [1] it
> should be possible to use it with hostap.
>
> JFYI, RT5370 (Tenda W311MI) and RT5592 (TP Link TL-WDN3200) don't work
> for me in [4] and report error (below). But both adapters report HOSTAP
> capability in Freebsd 10.2 i386
>
> imx6 kernel: run0: firmware RT3071 ver. 0.33 loaded
> imx6 wpa_supplicant[2164]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, val=0,
> arg_len=0]: Operation not supported
> imx6 wpa_supplicant[2164]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, val=0,
> arg_len=0]: Operation not supported
> imx6 wpa_supplicant[2164]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
>
> Just to be sure. You know that USB adapters don't support 11n at the
> moment?
No, I didn't know that. I was wondering why my speeds weren't very good
right now. I bought a couple of Ralink RT3071 based adapters and they
seem to work reasonably well, but not as fast as I was hoping. I am
getting only about 12Mb/sec now according to iperf3, but I don't really
need faster speeds.
Thanks for your information.
--
Carl Johnson carlj at peak.org
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