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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:49:52 -0400
From:      Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB wireless AP?
Message-ID:  <480E6B90.7090200@acm.poly.edu>
In-Reply-To: <fulh60$l5q$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fulfqf$grf$1@ger.gmane.org> <480E4681.5030608@acm.poly.edu> <fulh60$l5q$1@ger.gmane.org>

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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Boris Kochergin wrote:
>> Do you know about http://ralink.rapla.net/? The RT2500-based cards 
>> listed there are supported by the ural(4) driver. There's a 
>> discouraging comment about using them for access points in the man 
>> page, though:
>>
>> CAVEATS
>>     The ural driver does not support automatic adaptation of the 
>> transmit
>>     speed in IBSS and HostAP operating modes.
>
> That's too bad - it seems the Linsys' card is supported by ural. I 
> looked around for Linux information on the same topic, and given the 
> problems they have, I think I'll even settle for IBSS. Are there any 
> practical differences between HOSTAP and IBSS when used by a very 
> small number of users?
>
>
I've never used IBSS, but I have enough spare 802.11 hardware to try it 
out. I'll let you know.

-Boris



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