Re: getting wi running as a bridge

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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            Jason Hunt <[email protected]> writes:
: > To obtain a real 802.11 bridge, you need the cards to be able to run in
: > so-called WDS mode, but I'm not even sure this is supported with the
: > PRISM cards, let alone the Orinocos.
: 
: Do you mean it's not supported by the driver in FreeBSD?  I ask this
: because I have one of those Apple Airports (an older one), and they use
: Orinoco Silver cards.

Apple Airports load tertiary firmware into the Orinoco cards to get AP
functionality.  There's also a FreeBSD driver for orinoco cards that
loads the AP firmware, but it is just not available to anybody at all
:-(.

Warner

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