On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 07:47:51PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I wonder if a short list of access mode capable devices or chipsets > that are known to work well for atleast 24 hours or maybe 60 days would > be a good addition to the access point section of the faq (6.13) > especially with OpenBSD being such a good system to use as an access > point. > > In the mailing lists sthen suggests pci atheros are more stable so > perhaps a couple of those device names could go in and then whatever > particular chipsets or even driver type that is thought most reliable in > hostap mode could go in too? > > For example I was considering trying a rum driver and was completely > unsure about it despite some mailing list searches and then read the > man page caveat section and so won't. I guess atheros was right but I > should look into a card type or another chipset. > > I'm sure many use wireless a lot more than me so if you've had a > reliable experience with OpenBSD as an wpa2 access point then perhaps > you could list it here or look up your devices chipset at > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Main_Page and list that. > > Cheers, > Kc > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > > 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work > together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a > universal interface' > > (Doug McIlroy) > > In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd > > _______________________________________________________________________ >
I have been using this: athn0 at pci7 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5418" rev 0x01: apic 0 int 17 athn0: MAC AR5418 rev 2, RF AR5133 (2T3R), ROM rev 8 ... in hostap mode for over a year and a half without any issues. And yes, it's doing WPA2. I know other people have said that hostap mode is not stable but on this machine it's been rock solid. It's a mini pcie card inside a soekris 6501. -ml
