From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 25 7:39:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7479437B416 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:39:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAPFdAa94939; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:39:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAPFdA746284; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:39:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org> To: hm@hcs.de Subject: Re: wi as access point? Cc: keet@plig.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:51:20 +0100." <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> References: <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:39:09 -0700 From: Warner Losh 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 <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> Hellmuth Michaelis writes: : >From the keyboard of Warner Losh: : > In message <20011124174225.A1216@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes: : > : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It : > : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it : > : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point? : > : > A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to : > the public at this time. : : Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be : "why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-) It was written, but can't be released just yet due to licesing issues. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message