From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 15 22:56:33 2002 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 89EA137B406 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:56:30 -0700 (PDT) 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 g4G5uTf37366; Wed, 15 May 2002 23:56:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4G5uRr23787; Wed, 15 May 2002 23:56:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:54:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020515.235454.59872696.imp@village.org> To: cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WIreless Card Modes From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3CE2061B.9060302@cs.unisa.edu.au> References: <3CE2061B.9060302@cs.unisa.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: <3CE2061B.9060302@cs.unisa.edu.au> Benjamin Close 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message