From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 08:37:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF2D16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 08:37:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from s1.vhost.cz (s1.vhost.cz [82.208.27.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E1943D1D for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 08:36:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from konfer@mikulas.com) Received: (qmail 88509 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jan 2005 09:36:57 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jan 2005 09:36:57 +0100 Received: from QMQPqq client ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (s1.vhost.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10628) with QMQPqq id 87148-06; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:36:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.27.66.11?) (jiri@mikulas.com@62.24.71.107) by s1.vhost.cz with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 1 Jan 2005 09:36:57 +0100 Message-ID: <41D66145.2020605@mikulas.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:37:25 +0100 From: Jiri Mikulas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41D3E300.2000906@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41D3E300.2000906@nbritton.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at s1.vhost.cz cc: Nikolas Britton Subject: Re: Prism GT Chipset, hostap? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:37:00 -0000 Hello For Prism2.5 based cards you can use native wi driver, hostap works well, except bug in tx rate detection - it's fixed to 2Mbit/s more info there http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027476.html For PrismGT there is non-oficial driver from Green http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/ just compile it, it creates if_pff.ko module, then load it I found the problem, that if I load module in already running system, it works well, but if I load it at the boot (if_pff_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf), I got panic (something with locking, i'll give some info to green after debugging) however hostap works well I have already compiled version on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Tue Nov 16 09:56:37 CET 2004 you can get it on (also with firmware - see Makefile) in one tgz http://bsd.mikulas.com/wifi/pff-all.tgz Jiri Nikolas Britton wrote: > Do the Prism GT chipsets support hostap mode in freebsd (does freebsd > even support this chipset?)? and are there any other chipsets besides > Prism 2/2.5/3? that work in hostap mode? > > Thank you, > Nikolas