From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Feb 4 23:56:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from riffraff.plig.net (riffraff.plig.net [195.40.6.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B6A37B420 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:56:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by riffraff.plig.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1B48747B3A; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:56:33 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:56:33 +0000 From: Christiaan Keet To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wi as access point? Message-ID: <20020205075633.A35654@riffraff.plig.net> Reply-To: keet@plig.net References: <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:39:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message