802.11 AP Status?

[Mike Silbersack]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:

>
> I need to make a FreeBSD box be a proper 802.11 AP (BSS Mode).  I've
> got a pile of Orinoco cards here, but they seem to still not be
> supported.  What ever happened to that effort?
>
> Assuming they still aren't supported any recomendations on a cheap
> PCMCIA and/or PCI 802.11 card that is well supported in BSS Mode on
> FreeBSD?
>
> --
>        Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440

I have a Netgear MA311 (Prism 2.5 chipset) doing its job as a BSS under
-stable, and it works pretty well.  Now, take that with a grain of salt,
because I only run one node off of it, and that's a machine also running
FreeBSD.  That machine is running a Netgear MA401, which is the PCMCIA
version of the 311.

Note that if you're willing to run -current, your options are even
better:  According to the ath manpage, the Atheros based cards support BSS
mode, they're a/b/g capable, and they're true PCI/cardbus cards, so they
should perform better.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack