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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:25:33 +0200
From: Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at>
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Subject: Re: WLAN Access Point without Prism Chip
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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:27:07PM +0200, Tobias Tom wrote:
> I've found inside the manual that currently only Prism Chips are
> supported to create Access Points in FreeBSD (stable). I that still a
> valid statement, or is there any unofficial Solution which I could
> give a try?

afaik, ath(4) supports hostap. from the manpage:

"Supported features include 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power
management, BSS, IBSS, and host-based access point operation 
modes."

hth
toni
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