On 10/11/2014 11:21 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/11/2014 09:03 AM, Joel Finlinson wrote: >> What road were you going down? > > Trying to hang a master-mode wireless off of a linux box, usb or > mini-pcix. Never had luck with either. Just too flaky. Far easier and > future proof to use a dedicated piece of hardware bridged off of an > ethernet port. Now of course in his situation (battery-powered pi), > this isn't going to work.
By flaky I mean, hostapd would hang and require a restart often, and drivers often were flaky and buggy. Intel seems well-supported, but many of their chipsets don't support master mode. Atheros is getting better all the time. Also on one machine even with two antennas on the chassis I never got that great of signal strength. But really it was hostapd hanging that was the main problem. Existing connections seemed fine but new computers (especially Macs) couldn't connect. A simple restart of it and life was good. Though it would kick off any existing clients. And I never was able to come up with a script to detect on the access point when hostapd had gone stupid. Must be some interaction between hardware, drivers, and hostapd. I've had this issue on dedicated WAPs running OpenWRT, but not with as much frequency. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
