Searching for PCI wifi card with AP mode

[dadodrake]

Hello everyone,

I'm searching for a PCI wifi card with this minimal requirements:
- 802.11g
- AP mode
- WPA
- linux support (of course)

Optional:
- external antenna
- good price

I'm going to build a wavebox based on gentoo.
I will appreciate any suggestion. Thank you.

[s0be]

I can reccomend you stay away from anything that requires the acx100 driver as master mode is basic, but not at all functional.

http://acx100.erley.org/acx_fw/acx1xx.htm

is a list of known acx100 cards

[dadodrake]

thank you.

I need more tips for good cards, that work out of the box with gentoo

[ph03n1x]

Hmm Atheros and prism are prolly your best bet. There should be numerous cards out there u might also have a look at:

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

[dadodrake]

Thanx
Couldn't find a prism card with AP mode, that would be 802.11g - 54Mbs

[dadodrake]

I'm really worried, that if I would buy some wifi card (for example with atheros chipset), I wouldn't be able to switch it to AP mode.

Would be great to see your experience with building a software AP (wavebox)

[monotux]

I tried to build my own access point this week (with linux, of course).
After 3 days of research, a few card that didn't work as they should, I bought a netgear router.
It works suprisingly well

And stay away from any acx100/acx111 based card. And any rt2x00 basedv
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[Chris W]

I'm using a DLink DWL G520 (Rev B3 I think) with madwifi drivers and hostapd to provide a WPA-capable AP. While it does work I still have a few issues with stability of the connection.
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