Re: Wifi USB dongle

2020-02-17 Thread Nicolas George 
Nicolas George (12020-02-17):
> didier.gau...@gmail.com (12020-02-14):
> > The Netgear A6210 (mt76 driver) would do.
> > Readily available in France at Darty.
> 
> Thank you, it works quite well indeed.
> 
> Now, I have to find out why I cannot get more than 2.4 Mo/s from my
> phone, despite its interface pretending to be on 54 Mb/s. But it seems
> unrelated to the question of 2.4 vs 5.0 GHz.
> 
> I also need to see if I can have both 2.4 and 5.0 GHz in a bridge to
> simplify the addresses.

Sorry, my thick fingers and clumsy brain replied in private. I think the
confirmation it works deserves to be public.

And the answer for the bridge seems to be yes:

auto wlanA
iface wlanA inet static
address 10.0.128.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.0.128.0
broadcast 10.0.128.255
post-up systemctl try-reload-or-restart isc-dhcp-server.service
bridge_ports none

allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
post-up iw dev wlan1 set 4addr on
post-up ip link set dev wlan1 master wlanA
post-up systemctl start hostapd@wlan1.service
pre-down systemctl stop hostapd@wlan1.service

The 4addr is a bit mysterious, but it seems to work.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George


signature.asc
Description: PGP signature

Re: Wifi USB dongle

2020-02-14 Thread didier . gaumet 
The Netgear A6210 (mt76 driver) would do.
Readily available in France at Darty.

Wifi USB dongle

2020-02-13 Thread Nicolas George 
Hi.

I am looking for a USB dongle for wifi.

Can anybody here recommend one that
(1) is currently available on the market reliably,
(2) supports the 5 GHz band,
(3) correctly supported by Debian (testing and I can tolerate binary
blobs if they are in the archive),
(4) including as access point (it's the main use!)?

I am using a TP-Link TL-WN772N (7 by 3 centimeters, black with one side
white and a white antenna) with an Atheros AR9271 802.11n chipset, it
fit my needs, but I want 5 GHz because the 2.5 GHz band is a bit crowded
here. Unfortunately, I read that TP-Link changed the chipset for its
next model, and it requires a separate module and no longer works as
access point.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
  Nicolas George


signature.asc
Description: PGP signature