On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 14:04, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2020-01-01, List <l...@md5collisions.eu> wrote: > > Hi *, > > I am currently building a home router based upon OpenBSD. > > I therefore need some kind of WIFI Hardware. This piece of hardware > > needs to be connected over usb. > > Do you have any suggestions or recommendations ? As far as I can see > > it's pretty hard to find an antenna which is connected via USB an runs > > on a supported chipset. It is easy to get your hands on a > > realtek-chipset driven device. But urtw(4) doesn't support Host AP > > mode. Only ones that do are: athn(4), ral(4), ath(4). > > Finding those is hard. > > > > Maybe you guys know things I couldn't find ? > > bwfm(4) also supports hostap on USB devices and probably has the > least-worst performance of devices that will attach directly to > OpenBSD rather than as a separate "hardware" AP. > > These are Broadcom "fullmac" devices. IIRC there's a list of actual > devices using these somewhere on wikidevi.com but the site is > currently down so I can't check. The old "official raspberry pi > usb wifi" devices work, there should be some others (they're often > the only devices that work wifi dongles for some smart TVs that don't > have built-in wifi).
wikidevi.com was shut down 2019/10/31. My understanding is that the operator(s) provided a db dump to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/wikidevi It appears the data is "living on" on techinfodepot: http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
