Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:48:42 -0800 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? Message-ID: <3A35137A.DC9CD5DD@sftw.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001210162111.11532A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <200012102246.PAA31095@harmony.village.org> <3A3413C8.4D9148FF@telehouse.ch> <3A3454CB.5B6761DF@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > > Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the > > freebsd server as AP? > > There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If > you run it (and your other 802.11 devices) in ad-hoc mode, everything should > work peachy. The only caveat is that you will have to use ad-hoc mode rather than infrastructure mode (putting a wi cart into infrastructure _server_ mode is not possible with open-source software right now), and you can't use them in bridging configurations because they cannot do promiscuous transmit (every packet they send must have the local card's ethernet address). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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