Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:07:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: nsayer@kfu.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? Message-ID: <3A354225.2EFC00A5@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001210162111.11532A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <200012102246.PAA31095@harmony.village.org> <3A3413C8.4D9148FF@telehouse.ch> <3A3454CB.5B6761DF@softweyr.com> <3A35137A.DC9CD5DD@sftw.com>
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Nick Sayer wrote:
>
> Wes Peters wrote:
> >
> > Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the
> > > freebsd server as AP?
> >
> > There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If
> > you run it (and your other 802.11 devices) in ad-hoc mode, everything should
> > work peachy.
>
> The only caveat is that you will have to use ad-hoc mode rather than
> infrastructure mode (putting a wi cart into infrastructure _server_ mode
> is not possible with open-source software right now), and you can't use
> them in bridging configurations because they cannot do promiscuous
> transmit (every packet they send must have the local card's ethernet
> address).
Right. I should've said "it works fine as a router interface." In fact,
my FreeBSD laptop with WaveLAN Silver interoperates daily with an OpenBSD
router using a WaveLAN Silver, that's how I "connect" to the network at
the office.
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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