Best Wi-Fi chipsets for Linux and hostapd?

Guan Xin guanx.bac at gmail.com
Mon Dec 26 19:57:12 PST 2016


On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Morten W. Petersen <morphex at gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, I ran create_ap and it complained about the Realtek driver,
> which led med to patch the Debian source package with the patch link
> I've mentioned in a previous email.  Now things are running OK, but
> hostapd still crashes if I connect an Android device and download
> something >= 10 MBs in size.

Didn't receive your previous mail with link and no idea which Realtek
chipset was in use. Using the manufacturer's driver + hostapd caused
my no problem so far:

https://github.com/Kawashima-Azumi/rtlwifi-legacy
https://github.com/pritambaral/hostapd-rtl871xdrv


Guan



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