From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Nov 24 23:51:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541DA37B416 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 23:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hcshh.hcs.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFCCBA08; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:51:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de (hcswork.hcs.de [172.24.124.5]) by hcshh.hcs.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E45BA04; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:51:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id 55BF32B7; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:51:20 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: wi as access point? In-Reply-To: <200111241758.fAOHws738746@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Nov 24, 2001 10:58:54 am" To: Warner Losh Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:51:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: keet@plig.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL84 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) X-Virus-Scanned-HCS: by AMaViS perl-11 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 From the keyboard of Warner Losh: > In message <20011124174225.A1216@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes: > : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It > : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it > : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point? > > A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to > the public at this time. Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be "why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-) hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message