On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:10:59PM +0200, Alessandro Roncari wrote:
> is there anybody who feels like giving a good advice regarding a wireless
> chipset to be used in hostap mode, well supported by obsd and spreading a
> good signal? I wouldn't want to make a 2nd mistake, so I think best thing is
> to trust somebody who's using himself the same hardware.
I use a Ralink-based card with an external antenna, and it works
absolutely great. I did experience problems with that card with a
(probably) low quality antenna on a suboptimal location though, I got
30 pct packetloss and many duplicates. Using a high-quality, well-placed
antenna I get a great signal using the exact same card.
The only thing I do experience from time to time is a ral0: device timeout
when sending lots of data to a client. I even got some sort of division
by zero in the kernel once, halting the entire machine. This is on
4.1-STABLE. However, I saw that lots and lots of work was done on 802.11
code in 4.2, so I'll upgrade to that once my CD arrives and really
stresstest it. Should I find anything, I'll try to properly diagnose it.
Anyhow, this happens very rarely, and I'm quite happy with my ral card in
hostap mode!
ral0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 11, address
00:0c:f6:26:0d:b2
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525
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