Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:18:36 +0100 From: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> To: LeifEriccson <hara@br0tkasten.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros wifi driver (freebsd 6.0) Message-ID: <1132586316.866.19.camel@genius1.i.cz> In-Reply-To: <4381C970.3010709@br0tkasten.de> References: <4381A289.3000703@br0tkasten.de> <20051121122215.5db44a2c.lists@yazzy.org> <4381C970.3010709@br0tkasten.de>
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LeifEriccson wrote: > Marcin Jessica wrote: > > >What do you mean by virtual WLANs ? > > > >Marcin > > > > > > > > multi ssid support. compared to lancom 54 ag APīs, which are able to > handle several different named wlan networks, out of one device. > on a normal ethernet device you are able to set up several vlans eth0.0 > eth0.1 ... i want to know if this is possible with a atheros based wlan > device. No, this isn't possible with FreeBSD. Sam Leffler, one of the authors of 802.11 code in FreeBSD, has plans to do that though. It may be part of 7.0 and probably will be available as a patch for 6.X. You can read the slides from his presentation about the future of 802.11 on http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf . Michal
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