Subject: Re: USB device that supports master mode?
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
Cc: Robert Urban <urban@unix-beratung.de>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:39:49 -0400
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On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 16:35 +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 02:08 +0200, Robert Urban wrote:
> > Hello Wireless folks,
> > 
> > I'm looking for a USB device that supports master mode, preferably with a
> > connection for an external antenna.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of specific products that satisy these criteria?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Rob Urban
> I've a rt3070 that can do access point,
> I've tried it with wireless-compat and it worked.
> But I've not used it extensively(I plan to do so altough because of the
> good range.)
> It also has a connector for the antenna,but I don't know the brand,
> there is no brand written on it.

TP-Link TL-WN422G has an external antenna, it's a USB device and it
supports master mode with the patches for ath9k_htc that were recently
posted:

http://marc.info/?t=127676699200001&r=1&w=3

The device appears to be capable of 802.11n, even though that capability
is not advertised on the box.  I haven't run any benchmarks though.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin