Does AP w/ hostapd with official wifi dongle work?

[Luke]

I was thinking of buying one of these to use on a CentOS 7 router/AP system I built running an x86 processor so this thread caught my eye.  Since I haven't bought it yet I can't test it myself, so maybe I could make the suggestion to try the driver from Larry Finger: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8812au.  He's worked on Realtek drivers for RedHat and CentOS that have fixed issues I've experienced with other chipsets.  Maybe try it and let us know if you can get the adapter into AP mode?

Thanks guy. I kind of gave up on it - wasted too much time trying to get it to work. 

But if someone manages to get the dodgy Realtek drivers to work in AP mode and writes-up how they did it, I'd be happy to pick it up again and try.