Re: Seeking WiFi card supporting hostap

On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 1:05 PM Frank Leonhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Can anyone point me to a PCIe (or possibly USB) WiFi NIC that supports
> hostap, that I can actually buy? Link to Amazon UK or similar appreciated.
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> I believe the best choice may be something based on the Qualcomm Atheros
> AR9380. Finding a card for sale that says it's base on this chip is,
> however, proving difficult. They're all "super-fast" or "mega-fast" or
> "ultra-fast" but the silicon doesn't feature in the description. If you
> know of a card but you're not sure it will probably be connected using
> the ath driver, or run ifconfig and see if HOSTAP is one of the flags.
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> Any pointers much appreciated.
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> Thanks, Frank.
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It's been ages but I recall only finding one that does host ap, and my
memory is it was the usb dongle raspberry pi sold before they had
wifi... might check ebay.

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