On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:56:13PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-01-01, List <l...@md5collisions.eu> wrote: > > Hi *, > > I am currently building a home router based upon OpenBSD. > > I therefore need some kind of WIFI Hardware. This piece of hardware > > needs to be connected over usb. > > Do you have any suggestions or recommendations ? As far as I can see > > it's pretty hard to find an antenna which is connected via USB an runs > > on a supported chipset. It is easy to get your hands on a > > realtek-chipset driven device. But urtw(4) doesn't support Host AP > > mode. Only ones that do are: athn(4), ral(4), ath(4). > > Finding those is hard. > > > > Maybe you guys know things I couldn't find ? > > bwfm(4) also supports hostap on USB devices and probably has the > least-worst performance of devices that will attach directly to > OpenBSD rather than as a separate "hardware" AP.
bwfm(4) hostap mode has some issues still, e.g. you cannot actually force the channel to use. And I'm not sure whether USB devices actually support hostap.
