Re: Hermes based cards & MonitorMode/Hostap

"Matthew N. Dodd" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Benjamin Close wrote:
>     Does anyone know if there is plans to support hostap or monitor mode
> on the hermes based chipset wireless cards? I know hostap requires a
> tertiary firmware to be uploaded to the card so would probably violate
> the BSD license. But monitor mode doesn't.

I'd taken a look at the Linux stuff that enabled monitor mode on the
Hermes and wrote a bit of code but its since rotted and I haven't had a
chance to look at it again.

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