On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18 -0600, "Daniel Melameth" <dan...@melameth.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem- > > free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware > > on them) and one specific model of ath(4) (the one IBM used to use in > > some Thinkpads)... > > The only AP that every worked reliably for me was the venerable 11b > wi(4). > > > I've had reasonable success with RT2860 ral(4) and acx(4) but there > > have been some problems. RF performance of the 2.4GHz RT2860 has been > > really good for me, but there are still problems, I have to ifconfig > > down+up from cron to avoid the worst of the hangs on some AP dealing > > with a wider range of clients (probably the same as you see e.g. > > client associates but doesn't get working network access).. acx(4) > > are near impossible to obtain without ripping them from a commercial > > AP (and there they aren't widely used any more) and RF performance > > isn't so good but they were working a bit more reliably for me. > > So with heavy heart I had to resort to commercial boxes in some places... > > I concur with this completely. I have used over a half dozen > different pieces of hardware in an attempt to find a stable AP > solution on OpenBSD--and have worked with a couple developers to track > down and fix various bugs--but I was never able to achieve this. If > you want a stable AP, that'll work with varied clients, you will > likely not find it in OpenBSD at this time.
Me too. Went to the Penguin! Felt bad about it, but now have a stable AP.
