From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 17 1:55:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE9637B407 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.106.50.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.106.50]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA08114; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA5BAB2.9098CC61@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:56:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasputin Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility? References: <20010914150203.A30720@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <20010914103037.A5619@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010914101548.B7169@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3BA23F2E.23F68B29@mitre.org> <20010917094810.A39701@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rasputin wrote: > Thnaks a lot for the confirmation - for the record, I'm trying > to replace a basestation, not communicate with one. The timing for access points requires different firmware; you can't do it in software alone. Talk to Julian Elisher; he presented on a company that sells a FreeBSD driver with firmware (binary only for the whole thing) that can make a FreeBSD box into an access point, using specific hardware. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message