Re: WIreless Card Modes

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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            Benjamin Close <[email protected]> writes:
:     Recently there has been a lot of info going across this list 
: regarding the varying modes that the different wireless cards support.
:  From this I noticed that it looks like a lucent/orinoco card could be 
: used as an access point. Could someone confirm or deny this?

Not unless you have the right firmware for the lucent/orinoco card.
However, you can act as a "pseudo" access point where you can more or
less easily access things, but not quite all the things that a real
access point would do.

Prism2 cards can be used to make a real access point.

Warner

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