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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:18:11 +0000
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From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Unable to clone wlan device
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On 6/9/09, Vladimir Terziev <vladimirt@partygaming.com> wrote:
> The actual problem, i play with wlan cloning because of, is, i try to
> set up a FreeBSD based wireless access point either based on ral(4) or
> iwi(4) interface.
>
> The ral(4) (which is "Edimax EW-7128g") seems more suitable for that,
> since it has HOSTAP capability, but when i tried to run a hostapd(8) on
> it, i got an error about inability TKIP to be configured by hostpad(8).
> Since TKIP is not present as a capability of the wireless adapter, i
> decided to clone it and use the wlan_tkip(4) module to do the work.

That is not important.
You don't need to clone device to use TKIP.
If device or device driver doesn't support encryption in hardware, software
encryption will do the work via wlan_tkip(4).
There is only one exception to this and that are ndis(4) drivers. NDIS
do not allow such workaround.

-- 
Paul