Earlier this week on this mailing list someone recommended the following product:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/USB-Modules/USB-CAP/ I thought I will give it a try and ordered it... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: OpenBSD as a non-routing access point Local Time: April 8, 2017 4:43 PM UTC Time: April 8, 2017 2:43 PM From: open...@sirjorj.com To: Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> openbsd-misc <misc@openbsd.org> > On Apr 8, 2017, at 3:38 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 05:06:22PM -0500, Jordon wrote: >> My new wifi adapter finally arrived today (AR9271) so I want to give hostap a >> try with its new 802.11n support. > >> Am I on the right track? > > No. AR9271 is a USB device, and unfortunately there are bugs in the > driver that prevent hostap from working properly with USB devices. > > At least in my testing, the device sends no beacons. I have not yet > found a way to fix it and am not currently investing more time into it. > Perhaps it will get fixed some day. > Dang. Although, IIRC, beacons are what announce the presence of the access point. I definitely saw it on the client machine, so I think that part was working. But, yeah, anything beyond that is unsupported so I guess Iâll have to get a PCIe one. Thanks! Jordon
