From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 2 4:31:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moaner.org (moaner.org [166.88.45.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECB037B405 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 04:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from matt@localhost) by moaner.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g42BVBj46444; Thu, 2 May 2002 04:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 04:31:11 -0700 From: Matt Peterson To: Eric Masson Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: wi hostap mode supported cards list Message-ID: <20020502043110.J82882@moaner.org> References: <86it66ltbh.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <86it66ltbh.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com>; from e-masson@kisoft-services.com on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:47:46PM +0200 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 HostAP mode is currently limited to Prism2/2.5 NICs only. Lucent and Cisco (including OEMs like Buffalo, Xircom) have a different MAC, thus a different (closed source) way for AP (BSS) mode. The D-Link 520 works (I'm using this for testing, it ships with recent Intersil 1.3.4 firmware); Warner is using the Linksys WMP11 (both of which are Prism 2.5 OEMs from Gemtek, one just hides its MiniPCI guts). I'm pretty sure the other models mentioned are Prism2. I hear rumors that older firmware builds don't always work well. I have an updated wi(4) and wicontrol(8) man page diff in the works; I'm awaiting for Warner to cool down on the commits. Do note, while AP mode exists in -STABLE now, its still in the very early stages. We've run into some compatibility issues (currently Cisco cards don't seem to assoicate correctly). P.S. You might also want to follow-up with the "original" OSS HostAP effort from the Linux crowd . In theory, what they support, we support. -- Matt Peterson Bay Area Wireless Users Group Founder -- On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:47:46PM +0200, Eric Masson wrote: > > Is there a list of cards known working with hostap mediaopt of wi > driver ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message