From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6751384B4 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6350221C12C; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2478021C049 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E8E207D6 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:08:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:08:23 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=x2XBHeAvBjBodIi yIp5RoI6jK7E=; b=HYGwvXghkL0i78fe4qgw4iVQuP7v1gpUtJHQb8lIHemZq/r 7Dben94wgu/TTC5m/H0jNTIKP3/uhic8kcIdgJJbkv2qzKmD0pKgRbqqFPRL/1aX Iuhf0UEJ0hMMcIElVFFDy6ml5cN6sStufO5oo9O8S4MGjNzY3o6HW+K97DUk= X-Sasl-enc: GsXu9SU5KxiKdqccarPpUMvrTCX2xWKrbHjHAlg2lVkp 1447286903 Received: from [35.2.9.158] (0587336094.wireless.umich.net [35.2.9.158]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5E7E968027A for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:08:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AC WiFi Card To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <56437288.8070208@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> From: Alec Ten Harmsel Message-ID: <5643D87F.3090102@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:08:31 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56437288.8070208@ramses-pyramidenbau.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3fa9a5c1-8444-4a67-afc6-e8731a31ed66 X-Archives-Hash: 203caf4527373164dd44d9b8943987a2 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