Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 06:04:51 UTC 2018


On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > 06.02.2018 1:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > > My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn)  card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at
> least
> > > it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years.
> >
> > iwn(4) does not use IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP anywhere in its .c code in
> stable/11,
> > so it seems not to claim HOSTAP support.
>
> Kevin, what does "ifconfig ... list caps" say about your card? Does it
> report "HOSTAP" mode, or just post the drivercaps string please.
>
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> AS43859
>

Eugene was correct. My error. It does not provide HOSTAP.

Sorry for the false lead.
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