On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18 -0600, "Daniel Melameth" <daniel@melameth.com>
wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
> 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.

Me too. Went to the Penguin! Felt bad about it, but now have a stable
AP.