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

Peter Blok pblok at bsd4all.org
Tue Feb 6 07:55:05 UTC 2018


Hi,

I have been using a TP-Link TL-WDN4800.

It has hostap support, because that’s how I used it. Had lots of stuck beacon messages, but it kept doing its job.

Peter

> On 6 Feb 2018, at 07:04, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su <mailto: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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