Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 01:02:14 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: winter@jurai.net Cc: julian@elischer.org, sam@errno.com, grog@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/wicontrol wicontrol.c Message-ID: <20030116.010214.128867003.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030115214644.O59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301151651320.91512-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030115214644.O59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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"Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> writes:
: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
: > Orinoco cards do not support HOST-AP mode.
:
: I suspect they would if we could reliably put them in monitor mode.
I'm not sure that would work even then. PRISM-2 cards don't quite
work right when you have them in monitor mode to be an AP. I never
tracked down why...
What the 802.11 stuff does allow is for other cards to also do hostap
mode if their firmware allows it or they are basic packet engines.
The awi driver, when I update it, will allow one to create a hostap
from it. I suspect that the an driver could also be updated if people
can riddle out the hostap interface rumored to be in cisco cards.
Future drivers for some wireless cards will also use this feature.
Having it split out means that you don't have to have new hostap code
for every new card.
Warner
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