On 2022-11-26, Mikolaj Kucharski <miko...@kucharski.name> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 05:31:45PM +0000, Tom Smyth wrote: >> Hi Mikolaj, >> >> im told that the broadcom ac chipset based ones are an excellent choice as >> the card handles the vast majority of wi-fi protocols & advanced features >> associated with newer 802.11 standards... leaving you the admin to just >> configure the WPA keys and the ssids... >> checking back through the archives and there was a recenet enough >> discussion on this very topic ... >> > > What does mean `broadcom ac chipset`? > > Do you have example product at hand? > > Which OpenBSD driver is that?
bwfm (Broadcom FullMAC); I'm not sure whether there are miniPCI though, maybe just miniPCIe (and SDMMC/USB). > Are you saying this in context of hostap mode? The bwfm driver supports hostap mode, though most of the stack is run in the embedded system in the Broadcom controller so it's not the standard hostap implementation (config interface is the same but it's bypassing much of OpenBSD's 802.11 layer). OpenBSD's wifi client support is really quite good on the supported modern devices; but you won't get the most out of that (or other non-OpenBSD clients) connecting to OpenBSD hostap. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
