Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:36:09 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: leth@primus.ca Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com, bms@spc.org, dan@langille.org Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge Message-ID: <20020926.213609.03686867.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> References: <F336654A-CC47-11D6-B02B-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>
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Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> writes:
: > 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.
:
: Do you mean it's not supported by the driver in FreeBSD? I ask this
: because I have one of those Apple Airports (an older one), and they use
: Orinoco Silver cards.
Apple Airports load tertiary firmware into the Orinoco cards to get AP
functionality. There's also a FreeBSD driver for orinoco cards that
loads the AP firmware, but it is just not available to anybody at all
:-(.
Warner
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