Aug. 22, 2008
I have had some better luck with airbase-ng the last few days, most likely due to a combination of factors.
For starters I (once more) ripped apart my USB adapter and de-soldered my external antenna cable and found a better spot for it. The new re-fitted antenna works a lot better now and actually picks up quite a few new networks (and clients of course).
Another change I made was to switch the wireless drivers to the ones available from the git kernel sources which for the moment seem to work better than the previous ones.
I still believe in the airbase-ng concept of a user-mode AP which works with many different chipsets and not that dependent of driver patches. However, in order to switch away from the madwifi-patches it has to work atleast as good as they do and with a USB wifi-interface.
Once I get things running I'll post my setup here. If someone already has done so, please drop me a line with your setup including hardware 