Advice: 128 bit wep and Prism chipset

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Oct 3 08:29:27 PDT 2003


In message: <5.2.1.1.0.20031003170625.02c2a328 at pop.mail.yahoo.com>
            Jacques Caron <Jacques.Caron at IPsector.com> writes:
: And no, Aironet-based cards will not allow you to use them as APs (or at 
: least nobody knows how to do that, if they do). Only Prism-based cards 
: will, and maybe newer 802.11a/g cards (Atheros, Broadcom...)? Sam Leffler 
: will probably be able to tell us more on this.

Atheros chips do support the host ap mode, and there's decent support
for them in FreeBSD right now.

Warner


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