The old TI Acx Info is available here
Below are 2 different walkthrough for building hostapd for nl80211/mac80211 operation. The development version is working, but that depends on upstream not being broken. It includes reference to specific commits that I know to be working. The stable version now works. Patches welcome. Pat Erley
People often ask me where to buy wireless hardware that uses some chipset. Oxford TEC list what chipset is used in the wireless products they sell.
Here's a list of the wireless hardware I currently have and am going to be testing with:
| Device Name | Bus | Chipset |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | AP Works | |
| SparkLAN WL-850R Ralink 11g wifi module board (WL850R-S0) | Mini-PCI | RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI |
| rt61 | Y | |
| SparkLAN WPEA-110N 11n Atheros AR9002 minicard (WPEA110N-S0) | Mini-PCI-E | Atheros AR9280 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:d0 |
| ath9k | Y | |
| SparkLAN WUBR-125G Ralink 11N USB module board (WUBR125GNUS0) | USB | TBD |
| ??? | TBD | |
| COMPEX IWAVEPORT WLM200NX 11abgn 20dbi mPCI (WLM200NX-S0) | Mini-PCI | Atheros AR9280 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:d0 |
| ath9k | Y | |
| Belkin PCI N1 Wireless Desktop Card | PCI | Atheros AR5416 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR2133 RF Rev:81: |
| ath9k | Y | |
| BUFFALO WLI2-PCI-G54S Donated by Johannes Berg | PCI | Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g |
| b43 | Y | |
| Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-card | Mini PCI-E | Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n |
| b43 someday? | N | |
| Mini-pci card from wrvs4400n | Mini PCI | Marvell 88W8361P-BEM1 |
| mwl8k? | N | |
| Wistron NeWeb Corp. CM9 Wireless a/b/g MiniPCI Adapter | Mini PCI | Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x59, PHY: 0x43) |
| ath5k | N(3) | |
| Netgear WG111v2 | USB | RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225 |
| rtl8187 | N | |
| Netgear WPN111 | USB | Atheros USB |
| None/ndiswrapper | N(2) | |
| Buffalo AirStation Wireless-G | USB | Realtek 25xx |
| rt2500usb | N(3) | |
| Netgear WG311v2 | PCI | TI ACX111 |
| acx/tiacx | N(1) |
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| Driver | Driver Works |
| Driver | Driver Close |
| Driver | No AP Support yet |
| Driver | No mac80211 driver yet |
Note, these details only pertain to wireless-testing/compat-wireless. There may be external sources for drivers for these that work. That is outside the scope of this page