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Date:      Fri, 30 May 2003 04:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hermes based cards & MonitorMode/Hostap
Message-ID:  <20030530041048.F86964@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <3ED6A408.1060003@cs.unisa.edu.au>
References:  <3ED6A408.1060003@cs.unisa.edu.au>

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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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