Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:37:03 -0700 (PDT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Project Evil APs Message-ID: <20040530053703.0169216A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "May 29, 2004 10:37:33 pm"
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> Is 'mediaopt hostap' supposed to with the Project Evil ndis driver?
...
No, not even a little. I can't even believe you asked. HostAP mode
requires the ability to send and receive non-data frames in most
cases (beacon frames, management frames, etc...). Some NICs have
firmware that let you use hostAP features without having to implement
all the logic in software. But all Windows 802.11 drivers all pretend
to be 802.3 link layer drivers, because Windows doesn't have any
802.11 protocol support. NDIS has no API for doing monitor mode or
any hostAP tricks. So no, it's not supported, and it never will be.
> I
> just acquired a Linksys WMP54G card which appears to use the Broadcom
> 43xx chipset. I was originally intending to build a home-made access
> point out of the thing but I can't set the hostap mode.
> Project Evil likes this thing just fine with the drivers that came in
> the box and happily sends and receives packets in adhoc mode. When I
> try something like 'ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt hostap' I just get a
> 'Device not configured' error:
<jedi mind trick>
You want to use ad-hoc mode. You don't want to bother me with silly
questions about hostap mode because it doesn't really let you do
anything you can't do with ad-hoc mode anyway. Use IPSec with
ad-hoc mode and you'll probably get better security than any
access point can give you in the first place.
</jedi mind trick>
-Bill
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