On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem- > free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware > on them) and one specific model of ath(4) (the one IBM used to use in > some Thinkpads)...
The only AP that every worked reliably for me was the venerable 11b wi(4). > I've had reasonable success with RT2860 ral(4) and acx(4) but there > have been some problems. RF performance of the 2.4GHz RT2860 has been > really good for me, but there are still problems, I have to ifconfig > down+up from cron to avoid the worst of the hangs on some AP dealing > with a wider range of clients (probably the same as you see e.g. > client associates but doesn't get working network access).. acx(4) > are near impossible to obtain without ripping them from a commercial > AP (and there they aren't widely used any more) and RF performance > isn't so good but they were working a bit more reliably for me. > So with heavy heart I had to resort to commercial boxes in some places... I concur with this completely. I have used over a half dozen different pieces of hardware in an attempt to find a stable AP solution on OpenBSD--and have worked with a couple developers to track down and fix various bugs--but I was never able to achieve this. If you want a stable AP, that'll work with varied clients, you will likely not find it in OpenBSD at this time.
