From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 08:19:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81D516A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars.interactivemediafactory.net (mars.interactivemediafactory.net [194.2.222.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A3143FEA for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com) Received: from jc-xp.ipsector.com (dhcp11.imfeurope.net [194.2.222.206]) h93FIe8v084566 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:18:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20031003170625.02c2a328@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:09:51 +0200 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Jacques Caron In-Reply-To: <20031003085821.GW20209@pir.net> References: <20031003084504.2413.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> <20031002155001.4881A5D07@ptavv.es.net> <20031003081724.1884.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> <20031003083002.GT20209@pir.net> <20031003084504.2413.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-MailScanner-Information: X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamScore: s Subject: Re: Advice: 128 bit wep and Prism chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:19:14 -0000 Hi, At 10:58 03/10/2003, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > The point that I want to learn is the chipset of this card is Prism based? > >I have already answered that question - no they are not. >They are aironet chipset based. I think the confusion comes from the fact that the Aironet chipset (and firmware) is derived from the Prism chipset (and firmware), but the "split" occurred quite a while ago (several years), and even though there are some similarities between the two, they have diverged considerably, and they can be considered as being completely different chipsets. And no, Aironet-based cards will not allow you to use them as APs (or at least nobody knows how to do that, if they do). Only Prism-based cards will, and maybe newer 802.11a/g cards (Atheros, Broadcom...)? Sam Leffler will probably be able to tell us more on this. Jacques. -- Jacques Caron, IP Sector Technologies Join the discussion on public WLAN open global roaming: http://lists.ipsector.com/listinfo/openroaming