On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 01:22:27PM -0400, mabi wrote: > 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...
That's not going to fix any bug in the athn code :P > -------- 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 I???ll > have to get a PCIe one. > > Thanks! > Jordon > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info