Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:54:54 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WIreless Card Modes Message-ID: <20020515.235454.59872696.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <3CE2061B.9060302@cs.unisa.edu.au> References: <3CE2061B.9060302@cs.unisa.edu.au>
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Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au> writes:
: Recently there has been a lot of info going across this list
: regarding the varying modes that the different wireless cards support.
: From this I noticed that it looks like a lucent/orinoco card could be
: used as an access point. Could someone confirm or deny this?
Not unless you have the right firmware for the lucent/orinoco card.
However, you can act as a "pseudo" access point where you can more or
less easily access things, but not quite all the things that a real
access point would do.
Prism2 cards can be used to make a real access point.
Warner
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