Re: ThinkPad x61s
Sam Leffler <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Tom Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:21 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
>
>> With the recent patches available (see below) the experimental status is
>> rapidly vanishing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Benjamin
>>
>>
>
> Hi Benjamin
>
> One of the features I would really like in wpi(4) is hostap mode
> support, which would allow me to access/provide services to wireless
> devices like my ipod from my laptop. I even went out and bought an
> ath(4) to do this, only to be denied by my HP BIOS!
>
> Is this sort of feature technically possible, or was it only through the
> hardware interface exported by the ath binary HAL that this feature is
> possible? I notice no other wifi cards support hostap.
>
I don't believe there's 3945 firmware that supports ap operation.
However the 4965 does have experimental firmware that does ap mode and I
intend to get that going once 11n works.
Sam
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