Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:36 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad x61s Message-ID: <47D714B4.9010503@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <1205228400.75559.10.camel@localhost> References: <47CD41F3.2000203@langille.org> <20080307233340.GB1456@isis.u-strasbg.fr> <DB25A389-E690-484D-A656-BB6FE311FA1A@langille.org> <0EE032CC-4A3E-45D7-9337-62A44FDAC63B@langille.org> <47D63A0C.8050806@clearchain.com> <1205228400.75559.10.camel@localhost>
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Tom Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:21 +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
>
>> With the recent patches available (see below) the experimental status is
>> rapidly vanishing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Benjamin
>>
>>
>
> Hi Benjamin
>
> One of the features I would really like in wpi(4) is hostap mode
> support, which would allow me to access/provide services to wireless
> devices like my ipod from my laptop. I even went out and bought an
> ath(4) to do this, only to be denied by my HP BIOS!
>
> Is this sort of feature technically possible, or was it only through the
> hardware interface exported by the ath binary HAL that this feature is
> possible? I notice no other wifi cards support hostap.
>
I don't believe there's 3945 firmware that supports ap operation.
However the 4965 does have experimental firmware that does ap mode and I
intend to get that going once 11n works.
Sam
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