From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 26 20:38:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A8137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1BB43E6E for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8R3aIpk003094; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:36:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:36:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020926.213609.03686867.imp@bsdimp.com> To: leth@primus.ca Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com, bms@spc.org, dan@langille.org Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> References: <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> Jason Hunt writes: : > To obtain a real 802.11 bridge, you need the cards to be able to run in : > so-called WDS mode, but I'm not even sure this is supported with the : > PRISM cards, let alone the Orinocos. : : Do you mean it's not supported by the driver in FreeBSD? I ask this : because I have one of those Apple Airports (an older one), and they use : Orinoco Silver cards. Apple Airports load tertiary firmware into the Orinoco cards to get AP functionality. There's also a FreeBSD driver for orinoco cards that loads the AP firmware, but it is just not available to anybody at all :-(. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message