USB wireless adapter for hostapd?

Carl Johnson carlj at peak.org
Wed Oct 21 15:52:39 UTC 2015


"Michael B. Eichorn" <ike at michaeleichorn.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 20:41 -0700, Carl Johnson 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.
>
> Perhaps run(4)? Never used it myself as I prefer PCIe bus networking but
> it mentions hostAP.

Thanks, I had already seen run(4) but the problem is knowing which
adapters contain that chipset and where I could buy one.
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org



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