Recommend a good PCI or PCMCIA b/g wifi card for hostapd

[Daevid Vincent]

I posted this with no reply. I've been putting this on hold for a while.
 
I found this page that says no 802.11g cards are supported in hostap, and
after I panic'd, I read the date of 9/9/03... I'm optimistic that the state
of hostap is not as dire.
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2003-September/004109.html
 
So, again I ask, can someone recommend a PCMCIA (or PCI I guess) 802.11b/g
card that will work with the in-kernel hostapd to replace the Senao I'm
currently using.
 
I don't use any security (open AP) b/c I firewall off my eth0/eth1 from
ath0, plus it's a pain in the ass to have things like my CarPC, TiVo,
friends, etc. have to configure WEP/WPA/Whatever. 
 
http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/ doesn't show a list of supported cards
that I could find.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostapd is equally unhelpful.
 
http://www.engeniustech.com/datacom/products/Category.aspx?id=40 only shows
802.11b cards STILL (WTF?)


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From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net
[mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Daevid Vincent
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 4:30 PM
To: 'SeattleWireless Talk List'
Subject: Recommend a good PCI or PCMCIA b/g wifi card


I've been using a Senao Engenius NL2511 (200mW) card for several years in my
Linux server as my AP. 
I use the host_ap drivers in the kernel and life is good.
 
However, 802.11b is starting to show it's age at 11Mbps.
 
Sooo....
 
I would love to upgrade this as painlessly as possible to one of the newer
'g' or 'n' cards (I currently have no 'n' cards, but AFAIK, they're
backwards compatible right?)
 
I'm looking for either a PCI card, or a PCMCIA card that I can shove into my
PCI/PCMCIA adapter I'm currently using.
 
Also, I have a mixture of some 'b' devices and some 'g' (capable) devices.
So it needs to work with both simultaneously (is that possible, or does the
radio downgrade to lowest common denominator?)
 
Ideally if it has MMCX connector so I can continue to use my 8dbi antenna
and pigtail, that would rawk.
 
Can anyone suggest something that will work with hostapd and meet my needs?

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