From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 11 16:52:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 16:52:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8878537B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:52:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 145aAn-0000DP-00; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:07:49 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A354225.2EFC00A5@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:07:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nsayer@kfu.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? References: <200012102246.PAA31095@harmony.village.org> <3A3413C8.4D9148FF@telehouse.ch> <3A3454CB.5B6761DF@softweyr.com> <3A35137A.DC9CD5DD@sftw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Sayer wrote: > > 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). Right. I should've said "it works fine as a router interface." In fact, my FreeBSD laptop with WaveLAN Silver interoperates daily with an OpenBSD router using a WaveLAN Silver, that's how I "connect" to the network at the office. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message