From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 11 9:48:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 09:48:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9536237B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eBBHmgq53311 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBBHmgs23758 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Sender: nsayer@sftw.com Message-ID: <3A35137A.DC9CD5DD@sftw.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:48:42 -0800 From: Nick Sayer Reply-To: nsayer@kfu.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? References: <200012102246.PAA31095@harmony.village.org> <3A3413C8.4D9148FF@telehouse.ch> <3A3454CB.5B6761DF@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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