From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 16 0: 2:29 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28ED537B401; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:02:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6116343F3F; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:02:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0G82K1e036973; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 01:02:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 01:02:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030116.010214.128867003.imp@bsdimp.com> To: winter@jurai.net Cc: julian@elischer.org, sam@errno.com, grog@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/wicontrol wicontrol.c From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030115214644.O59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20030115214644.O59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030115214644.O59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: : > Orinoco cards do not support HOST-AP mode. : : I suspect they would if we could reliably put them in monitor mode. I'm not sure that would work even then. PRISM-2 cards don't quite work right when you have them in monitor mode to be an AP. I never tracked down why... What the 802.11 stuff does allow is for other cards to also do hostap mode if their firmware allows it or they are basic packet engines. The awi driver, when I update it, will allow one to create a hostap from it. I suspect that the an driver could also be updated if people can riddle out the hostap interface rumored to be in cisco cards. Future drivers for some wireless cards will also use this feature. Having it split out means that you don't have to have new hostap code for every new card. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message