From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 09:21:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 01E5937B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EA243F93 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4UGLGkA077731; Fri, 30 May 2003 10:21:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:20:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030530.102058.28787291.imp@bsdimp.com> To: cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3ED6A408.1060003@cs.unisa.edu.au> References: <3ED6A408.1060003@cs.unisa.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hermes based cards & MonitorMode/Hostap X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:21:27 -0000 In message: <3ED6A408.1060003@cs.unisa.edu.au> Benjamin Close writes: : Does anyone know if there is plans to support hostap or monitor mode : on the hermes based chipset wireless cards? No. You can't do hostap based stuff on hermes firmware. : I know hostap requires a tertiary firmware to be uploaded to the card so : would probably violate the BSD license. But monitor mode doesn't. The tertiary firmware turns the card into an access point. There's very little host control from what I've seen. However, distributing the tertiary firmware isn't a violation of BSD license, but it is a violation of the intellectual proprty of whomever owns the lucent IP for wavelan these days. Monitor mode only works on some versions of the hermes firmware. There's some patches floating around for it, but they haven't been integrated into the tree yet. Warner