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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AC WiFi Card
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:08:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5643D87F.3090102@alectenharmsel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56437288.8070208@ramses-pyramidenbau.de>

On 2015-11-11 11:53, Ralf wrote:
> So I was looking for some PCI-E Wifi Card, that supports AC standard. I
> was thinking about sth. like this [1]. A friend of mine told me, that I
> should take care when buying AC hardware, as there is rare kernel support.

Intel, in general, has great Linux support.

> Does anyone of you successfully use AC hardware in AP mode, Dual stack
> (5GhZ / 2.4GhZ)?
> What kind of hardware would you recommend (and is known to work without
> any painful hacks)?
>

I do not run any APs, but I manage plenty of laptops with 5GHz Intel 
chipsets, and never had a problem. Is there any reason you are not using 
a dedicated AP instead of a wireless card in AP mode?

Alec


  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-11 16:53 [gentoo-user] AC WiFi Card Ralf
2015-11-12  0:08 ` Alec Ten Harmsel [this message]
2015-11-12  8:05   ` Ralf
2015-11-12 11:52     ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-11-12 12:25       ` Alan McKinnon

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