<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bill and Plug</div><div dir="ltr">Please forgive my lack of knowledge </div><div dir="ltr">I haven’t noticed any replies from others so ...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I read an article recently saying there were a lot of advantages to the iwlwifi driver from Intel</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unfortunately there don’t appear to be any USB wifi devices with Intel chipsets and this would mean the change to a motherboard that took an M2 wireless card and an Intel wireless card to allow the use of iwlwifi driver </div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi">https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.ibase.com.tw/english/ProductDetail/EmbeddedComputing/IB836?gclid=Cj0KCQjwna2FBhDPARIsACAEc_WufNtJ_JRkXk31c7Fx305n8ozZBR2KkQWIWPmyytXDs7HCE14WMQYaAqiaEALw_wcB">https://www.ibase.com.tw/english/ProductDetail/EmbeddedComputing/IB836?gclid=Cj0KCQjwna2FBhDPARIsACAEc_WufNtJ_JRkXk31c7Fx305n8ozZBR2KkQWIWPmyytXDs7HCE14WMQYaAqiaEALw_wcB</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lots more work and costs but might this kind of approach be a solution?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Daniel </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 24 May 2021, at 11:22, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>After buying a few wifi dongles from reading the available specs
I am finding problems getting something that works:</p>
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<p>ralink 2870: just usable, but well known problem with errors
when stressed. (IoT power switches are resetting and powecycling
equipment including computers when the connection
dropped/reconnects due to errors/timeouts in my case)<br>
</p>
<p>atheros (9k_htc): limited by linux driver to two VAP's and 7
clients, patches to add more VAP's didnt work with later kernels
(has been awhile, has this changed?)<br>
</p>
<p>Realtek (various): messy and limited functionality in the out
of kernel Realtek linux driver and limited coverage for the in
kernel, which mostly cant seem to do VAP's at all.</p>
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<p>specs needed:</p>
<p> Works with hostapd VAP/VLAN's - up to 8 VAP's, preferably
more.</p>
<p> Can handle a lot of (30 or so, mostly IoT ESP32/ESP2866 and
the like mixed with some phones and Raspberry Pi's) WiFi clients<br>
</p>
<p> 2.4 Mhz, G/N standard<br>
</p>
<p> USB3 preferred but optional</p>
<p>The host I am using is an Odroid C4.<br>
</p>
<p>BillK</p>
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