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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:56:33 +0000
From:      Christiaan Keet <keet@plig.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wi as access point?
Message-ID:  <20020205075633.A35654@riffraff.plig.net>
In-Reply-To: <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:39:09AM -0700
References:  <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:39:09AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
> : >From the keyboard of Warner Losh:
> : > In message <20011124174225.A1216@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes:
> : > : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge.  It
> : > : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it
> : > : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point?
> : > 
> : > A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to
> : > the public at this time.
> : 
> : Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be
> : "why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-)
> 
> It was written, but can't be released just yet due to licesing issues.
> 
> Warner

Well that was November last year. Does anyone know if we can expect
this driver to appear publicly?

- Christiaan

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