Re: PCI or PCMCIA ????

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:17:35 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.bsd.general
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            "Andii" <[email protected]> writes:
: I am going to be setting up my first gateway on a freeBSD box. I am a little
: confused about the AP. I currently have a Siemens speed stream ss1024. It is
: however a PCI card, no PCMCIA to PCI adapter just a strait PCI card. From
: what I have read it sounds like I cannot use this and must use a wireless
: card that is PCMCIA to PCI. Am I correct or can I use my existing PCI card
: for the AP on the gateway?

I think that you are mistaken.  As long as it is a card that the wi
driver regocnizes, and it uses the prism 2, prism 2.5 or prism 3
chipsets, you should be OK.  I've used native PCI cards in hostap mode
while I was merging the hostap changes.

Warner
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