From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 2 6: 3:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from musique.teaser.net (musique.teaser.net [213.91.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CBE37B404 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 06:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (nantes.kisoft-services.com [193.56.60.243]) by musique.teaser.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E6D7255E; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:02:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 51F135BE5B; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:00:19 +0200 (CEST) To: Matt Peterson Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: wi hostap mode supported cards list References: <86it66ltbh.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> <20020502043110.J82882@moaner.org> From: Eric Masson In-Reply-To: <20020502043110.J82882@moaner.org> (Matt Peterson's message of "Thu, 2 May 2002 04:31:11 -0700") X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 15:00:19 +0200 Message-ID: <867kmmln6k.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Peterson writes: Matt> HostAP mode is currently limited to Prism2/2.5 NICs only. Lucent Matt> and Cisco (including OEMs like Buffalo, Xircom) have a different Matt> MAC, thus a different (closed source) way for AP (BSS) mode. All right, that's what I've understood so far. Matt> The D-Link 520 works (I'm using this for testing, it ships with Matt> recent Intersil 1.3.4 firmware); Warner is using the Linksys Matt> WMP11 (both of which are Prism 2.5 OEMs from Gemtek, one just Matt> hides its MiniPCI guts). I'm pretty sure the other models Matt> mentioned are Prism2. I hear rumors that older firmware builds Matt> don't always work well. Good news, DWL520 will be available in a week or so here. Matt> I have an updated wi(4) and wicontrol(8) man page diff in the Matt> works; I'm awaiting for Warner to cool down on the commits. All right. Matt> Do note, while AP mode exists in -STABLE now, its still in the Matt> very early stages. We've run into some compatibility issues Matt> (currently Cisco cards don't seem to assoicate correctly). That's a case where I could help, I've got an air lmc-352 in the office. Thanks for your answers Regards Eric Masson PS: Meanwhile, I've found this page : http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Prism2Card -- Discuter tranquillement avec Michel Guillou??? Je n'ai JAMAIS vu quelqu'un de plus *facho* que ce type. C'est écoeurant. -+- Rocou In GNU - T'as l'adresse des FFL, c'est pour écrire -+- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message