USB wireless adaptor that supports Master Mode?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:33:37 -0700
Derek Tattersall wrote:

> Does anyone here know which USB wireless dongles or chipsets support 
> operation in Access Point mode with hostapd?

I've just been going through this exercise, and have a USB wi-fi dongle
that sorta kinda almost works with the compat-wireless stuff back ported
from the 2.6.39 kernel. I expect it may work more solidly by the time
2.6.39 is mainstream. Here's my experiences so far:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html

Unfortunately, if you go through the driver list on the linux wireless
web site looking for USB devices that have AP support, you get
a really small list of unobtainable stuff :-).