From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 17 4:32:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA60137B40C for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rasputin by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15iwhO-000ASV-00 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:36:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:36:26 +0100 From: Rasputin To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility? Message-ID: <20010917123625.A40193@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> Reply-To: Rasputin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 * Terry Lambert [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