From owner-freebsd-net Thu Aug 29 11:58:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C3137B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D142A43E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020829182010.CZBI8473.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:20:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA98664; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:12:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Anuranjan Shukla Cc: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Sime=F3_Reig'?=" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Wireless In-Reply-To: <001201c24f81$193b7e20$f64545d8@anuntt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Anuranjan Shukla wrote: > It doesn't depend on the card. What you need is a driver that can run the > card as an AP. >=20 Half correct; The Prism-II has two ways of running as an AP 1/ completely different firmware.. does a complete AP. We do NOT support this. 2/ host-AP mode: it does a subset of AP work in the normal firmware and passes hard things back to the OS. we DO support this: The Orinocco card however uses a realted but different chip. It DOES NOT support HOST-AP mode. it can ONLY be used as an AP by using different firmware. A driver to make it do this does exist but is proprietary. I therefore suggest staying clear of the Orinocco for this purpose.=20 The driver for the Aeronet cards can make them go into promiscuous mode etc. but I do not know if there is any way to use them as an AP. you best bet is I think a Prism-II based card. >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sime=F3 Reig > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:49 AM > To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Wireless >=20 >=20 > Hi, I want to make a wireless node with freeBSD acting > as a AP. Wich card should I buy ? Conceptronics PCI C11iDT > is a good choice ? It has Prism 2 chipset but I don't know if freeBSD > can detect it, is it possible ? Orinocco cards can act as a AP ? Dlink ?? >=20 > Thanks a lot ! >=20 > Simeo > Tarragona (Spain) >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message