From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48213 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbYHBTKM (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:10:12 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KPMUT-0000Rs-T8 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:10:10 +0000 Received: from gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us ([66.218.54.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:10:09 +0000 Received: from daniel by gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:10:09 +0000 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Daniel Gimpelevich Subject: Re: wireless USB adapters recommendations? Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: (sfid-20080802_211017_111832_D6ADD2A8) References: <4894AC77.5060801@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:50:31 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I'm looking for a USB wireless adapter which is well supported under > Linux. > > Requirements: > > - WPA2 > - should support ad-hoc and access point modes - should work under > mipsel (I had once a prism54 mini-PCI card which didn't work under > mipsel) > > It would be also nice to to get the hardware from a producer which > cooperates with Linux community. > > Do you guys have any recommendations? Your requirements are mutually exclusive at the moment. Here is what the FSF says on the matter: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html Access-point mode is now dependent upon nl80211, which isn't finished yet.