Re: wavelan bridging

["Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>]

I assume (with my luck) that Lucent cards are not prism2.

Has anyone put together a list of makes/brands of prism2 based cards ? (So I
can go and buy one in the UK)

Cool work nonetheless.

Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
To: <misc@cvs.openbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: wavelan bridging


> In the past, many of you have asked if you can do wavelan bridging.
> We kept saying no, because you cannot run the wavelan in AP mode.
> There's no way to to put these cards into AP mode.
>
> For prism II based cards, however, you now can.  Be sure to use a
> very new firmware on the cards, though.
>
> It should just work.
>
> original work (on a GPL driver) by jkmaline@cc.hut.fi, then rewritten
> to be BSD licensed by skibo@pacbell.net, then hacked into our tree by
> mickey, millert, and markus who wrote the replacement WEP code (since
> the BSD licensed code was from the USA).
>
> pretty groovy stuff.  It'd be nice if some users tested this as a base
> station.