USB wireless adaptor that supports Master Mode?

[Derek Tattersall]

On 05/14/2011 02:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 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 :-).
For whatever it's worth, while looking around the web, I found a mention 
of a Belkin F5D7050 usb dongle that was reported to work in AP mode. I 
bought one from Amazon (it was $12.94 so I took a chance), and I can 
confirm that I was able to make it work as an Access Point with hostapd 
0.6.1.

Derek Tattersall