Daniel Gimpelevich schrieb:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:50:31 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I'm looking for a USB wireless adapter which is well supported under
Linux.
Requirements:
- 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)
It would be also nice to to get the hardware from a producer which
cooperates with Linux community.
Do you guys have any recommendations?
Your requirements are mutually exclusive at the moment.
Obviously, it doesn't have to support both ad-hoc and access point modes
at the same time if that's what you mean ;)
Here is what the
FSF says on the matter:
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html
According to that page, there are only two supported USB adapters... at
least when you search for the "USB" string.
Access-point mode is now dependent upon nl80211, which isn't finished yet.
So, there is no wireless USB adapter working with Linux supports access
point mode now, because some parts of nl80211 are not ready yet?
I see nl80211 is in vanilla kernel now; what features still lack to
provide access point functionality (to wireless USB adapters)? Any time
frames (2.6.28? later?)?
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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