Re: wi hostap mode supported cards list
Matt Peterson <[email protected]>
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HostAP mode is currently limited to Prism2/2.5 NICs only. Lucent and
Cisco (including OEMs like Buffalo, Xircom) have a different MAC, thus a
different (closed source) way for AP (BSS) mode.
The D-Link 520 works (I'm using this for testing, it ships with recent
Intersil 1.3.4 firmware); Warner is using the Linksys WMP11 (both of
which are Prism 2.5 OEMs from Gemtek, one just hides its MiniPCI guts).
I'm pretty sure the other models mentioned are Prism2. I hear rumors
that older firmware builds don't always work well.
I have an updated wi(4) and wicontrol(8) man page diff in the works; I'm
awaiting for Warner to cool down on the commits.
Do note, while AP mode exists in -STABLE now, its still in the very
early stages. We've run into some compatibility issues (currently Cisco
cards don't seem to assoicate correctly).
P.S. You might also want to follow-up with the "original" OSS HostAP
effort from the Linux crowd <http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/>. In
theory, what they support, we support.
--
Matt Peterson Bay Area Wireless Users Group
Founder <http://www.bawug.org/>
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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:47:46PM +0200, Eric Masson wrote:
>
> Is there a list of cards known working with hostap mediaopt of wi
> driver ?
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