Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:37:40 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support Message-ID: <CAN6yY1t3_19%2BLejNBAj_3EyPbJuAT_on99OrqZeAOfu6bso3ug@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK2sE9RUGnsiFjq6QaQpmHJk0KOnZEyXUW0=HeStWBQAPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20180205040249.GA47952@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <CA%2BtpaK2sE9RUGnsiFjq6QaQpmHJk0KOnZEyXUW0=HeStWBQAPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> > wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > I'm looking for an internal Wi-Fi NIC with support for > > > > 1. 802.11n or better 802.11ac > > 2. HOSTAP mode > > 3. 5 GHz band (better both 2GHz and 5GHz). > > > > for an AP running FreeBSD. > > > > A USB NIC would do too, but a PCI-E is preferable. > > > > Could you please advise a good one? > > > > I've been told that I have a rather narrow choice between ath(4), > > mwl(4) and ral(4) NICs. Is that correct? > > > > > I have a later model ath and it works well for 2 and 5 Ghz. My iwm which > supposedly supports 5 GHz doesn't work there but is okay at 2. > > I have no experience with HOSTAP mode. > > -- > Adam > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn) card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at least it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years. Does FreeBSD even have 11AC implemented? I DO NOT recommend it, though, except as a last resort as it has a number of issues and has consistently regressed since FreeBSD 10. It has a really bad time getting along with the wpa_supplicant in 11. It can take many minutes to sync up on re-boot. It also goes "DOWN" very briefly a few times a day, but it comes back up very quickly from these, so I may have a hardware issue on my almost 7 year-old ThinkPad T520. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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