Please recommend a usb wifi dongle.

Arend van Spriel arend at broadcom.com
Wed Jun 19 03:47:00 EDT 2013


On 06/19/2013 09:19 AM, Chengyi Zhao wrote:
> Andrea,
>
> Thanks.
>
> TP-LINK TL-WN722N uses an Atheros ar9271 device.
> I don't know which driver you have used.
>
> I found out some useful information from history messages, they are:
>
> [RFC] nl80211: allow Android P2P functionality
> http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2013-May/027819.html

For that patch your driver (ath9k?) needs to support the P2P_DEVICE 
interface type. AFAIK ath9k does not support that (yet?).

Regards,
Arend

> Cheers
>
> Chengyi
>
> 2013/6/18 Andrea Lusuardi - uovobw <linolusu at tin.it>:
>> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:04:57 +0800
>> Chengyi Zhao <chengyix.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I want to enable concurrently the wlan0 and p2p0 interface with the
>>> usb wifi dongle on PCs,
>>> It is similar to the Wi-Fi direct of Android.
>>>
>>> For this functionality, Please recommend a usb wifi dongle to me.
>>
>> having great success with
>>
>> TP-LINK TL-WN722N
>>
>> supported ootb on latest debian with hostapd.
>> good luck.
>>
>> --
>> Andrea Lusuardi  -  uovobw GPG: 313C1073
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