Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:00:07 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any miniPCI wireless LAN cards support "wi" in "hostap" mode? Message-ID: <20060420150007.CE72145042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:52:14 PDT." <7.0.1.0.1.20060420074922.01f98ee0@live555.com> <7.0.1.0.1.20060420025507.02043008@live555.com>
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> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:52:14 -0700 > From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Does anyone know of any miniPCI wireless LAN cards that support "wi" > in "hostap" mode? > > I thought I had struck gold with the Xterasys XG-600 card, because it > uses a "PRISM GT" chipset, but it appears that "wi" doesn't support > that particular PRISM chipset at all. > > Any other candidates? Ross, There are Prism 2.5 based mini-PCI cards out there. I have one (with an Intel label on it) in my ThinkPad T30. But they are 802.11b only and have not been made in at least two years, so they won't be easy to find. Is there a reason wi support is required? There are several mini-PCI cards out there with Atheros chip-sets. I was thinking that the Prism GT was an example of one, but I may be incorrect on that. The ath driver seems to work much better than the wi for many things and I'm pretty sure that hostap is supported on it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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