USB wireless adapter for hostapd?

[Adrian Chadd]

hiya,

The urtwn driver is getting some hostap love right now. That's likely
your best bet in the medium term.


-a


On 12 November 2015 at 20:54, Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> wrote:
> 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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