[Battlemesh] usb wifi dongle

Bastian Bittorf bittorf at bluebottle.com
Tue Mar 15 11:18:33 UTC 2016


* John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> [15.03.2016 12:08]:
> i am in the unfortunate situation where i need to use a usb wifi dongle
> in AP mode. which chipsets work ? quick search on google yielded
> RTL8192cu which is scary as it is made by realtek, could this really be
> the one of choice ?

Don't do it! 8-)
There are too many side-effects.

What you can use is:
https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader

it has a modern ath9331 SoC and is small enough.
using usb2usbnet you can bridge it into your
existing router.

bye, bastian



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