Re: Hermes based cards & MonitorMode/Hostap
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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In message: <[email protected]> Benjamin Close <[email protected]> writes: : Does anyone know if there is plans to support hostap or monitor mode : on the hermes based chipset wireless cards? No. You can't do hostap based stuff on hermes firmware. : 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. The tertiary firmware turns the card into an access point. There's very little host control from what I've seen. However, distributing the tertiary firmware isn't a violation of BSD license, but it is a violation of the intellectual proprty of whomever owns the lucent IP for wavelan these days. Monitor mode only works on some versions of the hermes firmware. There's some patches floating around for it, but they haven't been integrated into the tree yet. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"