On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 13:38, Aneurin Price <aneurin.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It looks like there are a range of Atheros devices, all cheaper than > buying them from anywhere else I've looked. Unless anyone pipes up > with a horror story, I'll try an AR9287 since it's cheap enough that I > won't get too upset if it all goes pear shaped. I can't find any > reports of problems with that device, though it has only recently > become supported (should work with the kernel currently in > testing/unstable/backports AFAICT). Of course, I couldn't find any > *recent* reports of problems with the AR5008 you mention either, so > perhaps I'm not looking hard enough. >
> > Next I need to figure out what antennas I need to get. I'll try to > report back if it ends in success - or disaster. > Mixed results: the range is terrible, although I believe that is entirely due to a poor choice of antennas. With Linux 2.6.32 from lenny-backports the device seems to work fine for creating an open network, but I can't seem to persuade it to use any kind of security - hostapd always says 'deauthenticated due to local deauth request'. I've tried a wide range of configuration options to no avail. This isn't especially important to me though as I don't really mind leaving the AP open - just thought I'd mention it for the record. Nye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimtropvh33mx9gjxzeapkhstvb2ujcttwowf...@mail.gmail.com
