From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 06:00:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAC337B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 06:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars.interactivemediafactory.net (mars.interactivemediafactory.net [194.2.222.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3D843F75 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 06:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com) Received: from jc-xp.ipsector.com (dhcp13.imfeurope.net [194.2.222.206]) h37D0V4C023686; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:00:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030407144828.02476490@wheresmymailserver.com> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:52:52 +0200 To: Peter Gade Jensen From: Jacques Caron In-Reply-To: <20030407123017.GA22455@horse03.daimi.au.dk> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20030407134906.021efe88@pop.mail.yahoo.com> <20030407072318.GD4573@speedy.unibe.ch> <5.2.1.1.0.20030407134906.021efe88@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: Tobias Roth cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: good pcmcia card to build ap X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:00:48 -0000 At 14:30 07/04/2003, Peter Gade Jensen wrote: >On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:50:23PM +0200, Jacques Caron wrote: > > There is no hostap support with those cards. You're stuck with PRISM-based > > cards (or Hermes-based ones in theory, but that's not yet supported with > > FreeBSD, afaik). > >You make it sound like the PRISM-cards are not the way to go? They're the only way to go. But in most cases you won't get the sensibility of the cisco cards, for instance. >I'm like Tobias looking to make an accessPoint, but with a PCI type card >instead, but it should be the same I think? Could someone please name >some cards based on the PRISM-chip, if that's the only card supporting hostAP >in FreeBSD? I have some D-Link DWL-520 (not plus) PCI cards, but apparently those are hard to find nowadays. Apparently, the only cheap cards out there that are still using the PRISM chipset are the Netgear MA301/401 (PCMCIA, PCI adapter). Some others that had the PRISM chipset are now using other chipsets (without any reference change!). Otherwise, for folks in the US, you can check out the Senao cards which have higher transmit power and are PRISM based. Not legal in Europe, though. Jacques. -- Jacques Caron, IP Sector Technologies Join the discussion on public WLAN open global roaming: http://lists.ipsector.com/listinfo/openroaming