Unable to clone wlan device

[Vladimir Terziev]

Hi Paul,

this is very very important info. It means i should be able to do it
once i find the actual problem.

Thanks,

Vladimir


On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 15:18 +0300, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 6/9/09, Vladimir Terziev <vladimirt at partygaming.com> wrote:
> > The actual problem, i play with wlan cloning because of, is, i try
> to
> > set up a FreeBSD based wireless access point either based on ral(4)
> or
> > iwi(4) interface.
> >
> > The ral(4) (which is "Edimax EW-7128g") seems more suitable for
> that,
> > since it has HOSTAP capability, but when i tried to run a hostapd(8)
> on
> > it, i got an error about inability TKIP to be configured by
> hostpad(8).
> > Since TKIP is not present as a capability of the wireless adapter, i
> > decided to clone it and use the wlan_tkip(4) module to do the work.
> 
> That is not important.
> You don't need to clone device to use TKIP.
> If device or device driver doesn't support encryption in hardware,
> software
> encryption will do the work via wlan_tkip(4).
> There is only one exception to this and that are ndis(4) drivers. NDIS
> do not allow such workaround.
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
> 

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