Re: wavelan bridging

[Scircuit <circuit@adelphia.net>]

I know for sure that the SMC 2632W is a prism 2.  The series 2 of the Linksys wpc11 is not prism2, it is the rism2.5 chipset.

Jon

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:30:52 +0100
"Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net> wrote:

> 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.

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