Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:36:26 +0100 From: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility? Message-ID: <20010917123625.A40193@shaft.techsupport.co.uk>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [010917 10:00]: > 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. Cheers Terry, I'm really only after a wireless gateway (don't need all the other bells and whistles of a basestation) so I'll just set it up in ad-hoc mode and set it as default route, I think. -- Arbitrary systems, pl.n.: Systems about which nothing general can be said, save "nothing general can be said." Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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