It occurred to me that Dieter Baron wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.general:
> hi,
>
> can anyone recommend a pci wlan card for use in a NetBSD-based host
> access point?  The last two cards I bought (which the man page claimed
> were supported) were not recognized by NetBSD -- they were newer
> revisions with a different chip.

I've been operating a ral(4)-based card in host-ap mode. Worked great. ral-
based cards used to be common as muck over here, especially in the low-end
price range, but I must confess that they're getting harder to find, with
the recent push towards MIMO :(