Thanks for your reply!
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:19:00 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Ramon Hofer > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry if this is a bit off topic but maybe someone has some experience >> and wants to share them with me :-) >> >> I have an Alix board [1] which I use as network manager (DHCP, DNS, >> NTP, etc.) >> >> I'd like to add a WLAN interface so that I can use it as WLAN access >> point. It has miniPCI and USB. >> One card which I found and think should work is the TP-Link TL-WN861N. >> As per linuxwireless it uses the ath9k driver. They list these modes of >> operation: >> Station Mode, *AP Mode*, IBSS Mode, Monitor Mode, Mesh point with HT >> support, as well as RSN, WDS (as of >= 2.6.37). This means it should be >> possible to use this module because AP means Access Point or am I >> wrong? > > I'm pretty sure it means Access Point; in any event, STW for "TL-WN861N > hostapd" yields many people using / trying to use that card as an access > point, e.g.: > > https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=115069 This sounds promising. I've already played with hostapd on my Thinkpad T43 which I was able to set up as access point. So I hope I will be able to do that with the TL-WN861N and the Alix board too. >> Maybe there are some other suggestion? Or should I better go for an USB >> device? > > My impression is that there is in general better support for [mini]PCI > cards, but I'm not absolutely sure about this, and it's certainly not a > hard and fast rule. That's good to hear :-) Best regards Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
