Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:04:22 +0200 From: "'Tobias Roth'" <roth@iam.unibe.ch> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: hostap (was: good pcmcia card to build ap) Message-ID: <20030408070422.GB21535@speedy.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <002601c2fd0a$715d5ec0$0a00000a@yes.no> References: <20030407123017.GA22455@horse03.daimi.au.dk> <002601c2fd0a$715d5ec0$0a00000a@yes.no>
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Erik Paulsen Sklerud wrote: > > > I'm like Tobias looking to make an accessPoint, but with a > > PCI type card > > instead, but it should be the same I think? Could someone please name > > some cards based on the PRISM-chip, if that's the only card > > supporting hostAP > > in FreeBSD? but then, do I really need hostap? i tried out ad-hoc mode with a linksys card, and it seems to work just fine. i didn't get much smarter by googling for hostap. what are the advantages of it (especially when I use only one acess point, not multiple ones?). I have multiple machines that need to connect at the same time though, all with different operating systems (FreeBSD, WinXP, OSX). But that also shouldn't cause trouble, as far as I understand the situation. thx, t.
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