On 2009-09-06, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm about to set up an small box as an 802.11n access point/gateway/firewall. > I've been doing my research in order to purchase a compatible adapter, > and all except one I've found use the run(4). > According to the information I've managed to find, as of April 2007, > run did not support hostapd(8). > I don't know if this has changed since. > > The ONLY other adapter I've found available in my country uses the > otus(4) driver. > According to what I understand from it's man pages, it doesn't support > hostapd, but I'm not too sure. > So, does run support hostapd? Does otus (I might have been wrong)? If > not, what are my alternatives? > >
The USB adapters aren't really a good choice for hostap. rum(4) and ural(4) are workable, but can't automatically control transmit speed in hostap mode. On 2009-09-07, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. > I guess I'll have to use 802.11g for now. The issue is I tend to have > a lot of interference in the 2.4GHz area. 11n can be at either 2.4GHz or 5GHz, if 2.4GHz is crowded you need to move to 5GHz, not move to "n". There are various devices which can work at 5GHz (802.11a) supported by OpenBSD. They're usually a bit harder to get hold of, but that's not a bad thing; if they were easily available, that part of the spectrum would be just as crowded at 2.4GHz...
