On 2020-01-01, List <l...@md5collisions.eu> wrote: > Hi *, > I am currently building a home router based upon OpenBSD. > I therefore need some kind of WIFI Hardware. This piece of hardware > needs to be connected over usb. > Do you have any suggestions or recommendations ? As far as I can see > it's pretty hard to find an antenna which is connected via USB an runs > on a supported chipset. It is easy to get your hands on a > realtek-chipset driven device. But urtw(4) doesn't support Host AP > mode. Only ones that do are: athn(4), ral(4), ath(4). > Finding those is hard. > > Maybe you guys know things I couldn't find ?
bwfm(4) also supports hostap on USB devices and probably has the least-worst performance of devices that will attach directly to OpenBSD rather than as a separate "hardware" AP. These are Broadcom "fullmac" devices. IIRC there's a list of actual devices using these somewhere on wikidevi.com but the site is currently down so I can't check. The old "official raspberry pi usb wifi" devices work, there should be some others (they're often the only devices that work wifi dongles for some smart TVs that don't have built-in wifi). But as others have mentioned separate network devices are usually a better way to go for APs.
