Prism-II Cards [was: 802.11 gateway/authpf]

["Steven Caesare" <scaesare@caesare.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] 
> On Behalf Of Chris Kuethe
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:22 PM
> To: Generic Player
> Cc: Jason Dixon; misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: 802.11 gateway/authpf
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Generic Player wrote:
> 
> > > Works great, if you don't have a wide perimeter to cover.  Find 
> > > another HostAP-capable card with an external antannae (Linksys 
> > > WMP11), and you're golden.
> >
> > Be careful with this.  Linksys are fucktards and have 
> WMP11's floating 
> > around that are not prism2 based, but show up as some sort 
> of broadcom 
> > crap.  There is no way of knowing the difference between 
> them either, 
> > besides trying it out.
> 
> a friend and i just went shopping for linksys cards - fear 
> the version 2.7. it seems that v2.6 and older are still 
> prism. and the only place this is marked is on the card itself...
> 
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>      GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
> 
> 

May I recommend:

http://store.yahoo.com/sohowaredirect/ncp130.html

Cards are Prism-II based, albeit w/ older firmware. Upgrades easily
found on the net (NetGear has a firmware/flash set that works with this
card) allow it to work in HostAP mode.

PCI based, external antenna w/ 6-foot cable. Nice for mounting the card
in a rack-mount server, and then remoting the antenna to the top of the
rack.

Recently discounted to $25 (US).

-Steve