USB wireless adapter for hostapd?

[Malcolm Matalka]

Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> writes:

> 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.


I've had success with this:

http://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/accessories/wifi-dongles/wifi-dongle-nano-usb/?search=wifi

Basically, you need to find things with specific chipsets that support
hostedap.  Ralink 5370 is one of them.

However, I've had trouble getting more than 80KB/s out (although I can
max out the in at ~1MB/s) of this on my RPi1.  I'm not sure where the
problem is because I just don't know enough about it, perhaps someone
else knows how to debug/tune it.