USB wireless adapter for hostapd?

Michael B. Eichorn ike at michaeleichorn.com
Wed Oct 21 16:12:58 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 08:48 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> "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.

Erm. run(4) mentions several wireless adapters.

For instance it says 'TP-LINK TL-WDN3200' I used that as a search string
on amazon and got: http://amzn.com/B007ZWL1ZE
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