On 05/19/2011 02:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 20:14:08 -0700 > Derek Tattersall wrote: > >> For whatever it's worth, while looking around the web, I found a mention >> of a Belkin F5D7050 usb dongle that was reported to work in AP mode. I >> bought one from Amazon (it was $12.94 so I took a chance), and I can >> confirm that I was able to make it work as an Access Point with hostapd >> 0.6.1. > By golly, you are right! There are a lot of negative reviews > of it, but it worked out of the box for me with hostapd. I just > had my android phone connected to it and updated several market > apps. No problems encountered. > > It appears to have a ralink chipset which is mentioned in the > linux wireless website as supported. > > Hopefully by the time this belkin dongle dies, the linux support > will be stable for the RTL8192cu in the first dongle I bought :-). Glad it worked for you. My laptop says its built in wireless is an RTL8192CE. Does that support AP mode? I couldn't get it to work as an AP when I tried it. Which is why I was looking for a USB dongle that would work. What is the difference between an RTL8192ce and an RTL8192cu anyway? Derek Tattersall -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
