Search Linux Wireless

Re: wireless USB adapters recommendations?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:09 +0000, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> > I'm looking for a USB wireless adapter which is well supported under
> > Linux.

> > - WPA2
> > - should support ad-hoc and access point modes - should work under
> > mipsel (I had once a prism54 mini-PCI card which didn't work under
> > mipsel)

Didn't work under mipsel seems fixable, should be a driver issue.

> Your requirements are mutually exclusive at the moment. Here is what the 
> FSF says on the matter:
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html

I wouldn't be too sure the FSF is a good source of information regarding
wireless on Linux (or of anything about Linux for that matter). And the
list is, indeed, rather incomplete and gives a very skewed picture.

On the other hand, I don't think there are any USB devices that support
AP mode.

> Access-point mode is now dependent upon nl80211, which isn't finished yet.

Patience. It will be soon.

johannes

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux