From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 26 15:01:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27A11065690 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 15:01:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ilikefbsd@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de (fmmailgate01.web.de [217.72.192.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672948FC14 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 15:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ilikefbsd@web.de) Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90391103E831D; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [80.153.109.231] (helo=[192.168.1.104]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.110 #277) id 1M8y9V-00055x-00; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:01:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1C043C.30509@web.de> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:01:16 +0200 From: Marco User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090410) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Henrik Sylvester References: 4A0D3D63.903@web.de <4A0D6177.5070601@janh.de> In-Reply-To: <4A0D6177.5070601@janh.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ilikefbsd@web.de X-Sender: ilikefbsd@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/DQuKhbgGW88i4stfJYk3cQ0qdt1YJM1LXJJDF zI42JtBAGOeiaskb2NNV1evdhEkN9jVqLmPtQQHbL38QAE7LG+ yA6/S3RcU= Cc: questions-list freebsd Subject: Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:01:20 -0000 thank you, this was exactly stuff i was looking for, external linksys or other is already here, but i want to do one device this stuff. unfortunatly the device has no mini-pci slot, i'd love to build it like this as i see very good atheros support in fbsd. however, if the other drivers also support hostap mode this would be a way to go.current-8 is of course not applicable for this job as i want a stable system ;-) thank you guys very much for your help, marco Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > Marco wrote: >> iam thinking of building a router with usb wlan and usb ethernet >> controller attached. as the wlan device shall be an AP i would go for >> atheros stick. however, i'am unsure if anybody has expirience if or >> which devices should work out of the box with latest stable release. >> i read something about a "uath" device module but could not find it >> in my sys-tree. > > uath is only available in 8-CURRENT and I am not sure, if it does Host > AP mode. (The same goes for upgt.) > > In 7.2-RELEASE (and 7-STABLE), the only usb wlan drivers are ural, > rum, and zyd, but zyd does not do Host AP for what I know (and it was > never stable for me). ural and rum both do Host AP. > > Maybe this is interesting for you: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Open_Source_Wireless_Drivers > > Anyhow, why does it have to be usb? From my own experience, usb > devices do not work as well as Cardbus or (Mini)PCI. You will probably > be much more happy, if you get an ath based MiniPCI card. > > Cheers, > Jan Henrik > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >