Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:10:20 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Prism54 Chipsets Supported? Message-ID: <20040727091020.57f6a517@duality.bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <20040727023106.GD96815@green.homeunix.org> References: <40921E4B.3080609@bytephobia.de> <20040727023106.GD96815@green.homeunix.org>
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:31:06 -0400 Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> wrote: > Please check out: > <http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/>; > Note that this may well not compile on 5.2.1-RELEASE, just -CURRENT > (and certainly not -STABLE). Seat belts are not included, but I have > taken great lengths to make this what I belive to be one of the most > inherently stable drivers on FreeBSD. > > Currently working are: ad-hoc mode, infrastracture mode, and HostAP > (firmware-based) mode. WEP support works fine, but radiotap and > promiscuous mode are not implemented. I can't find any PCI cards > for sure that have Prism GT/Prism Duette chipsets (note that the > Prism Nitro ones certainly won't work yet, but I don't know how > much work it is to support them). I'm using NetGear WG511 CardBus > cards, but haven't tried doing suspend/resume support yet. > > Notably absent are HostAP management features (listing associated > clients, kicking them off, associating with 802.1x) and the > support for TKIP. Still, it's nice having an 802.11 card that can > do over 20Mbit/s and not take all your CPU time to do it. Thats great :) But first i'll have to get a card based on prism54. I bought a senao prism2,5 mini-pci card. i'm looking forward to test these drivers, if i'm able to get one of these cards in the near future. But nevertheless thanks for your work! Patrick -- =========================================================================== Patrick Hurrelmann | "Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi at bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook
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