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
> 

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