From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 26 3: 6:55 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 E0FDF37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE07B43E65 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 6301 invoked by uid 1031); 26 Sep 2002 10:03:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:03:09 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Jacques Caron Cc: Dan Langille , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge Message-ID: <20020926100309.GU28076@spc.org> References: <3D91EAF6.18283.6741AB3F@localhost> <3D91EAF6.18283.6741AB3F@localhost> <5.1.1.6.0.20020926115456.03ea3c10@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020926115456.03ea3c10@pop.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Jacques Caron wrote: > 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. There is preliminary WDS support in Linux for the PRISM2.5, but it's not 100% IEEE 802.11 compliant. May be worth a look. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message