Wireless Cards as Access Points - I'm having a hard day...

[paul van den bergen]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:18 pm, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:22:40AM +0400, tokza wrote:
> > On Friday 24 October 2003 04:25, paul van den bergen wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > how do I get the cards to act as a AP (server) rather than an AP
> > > (client)??
> > >
> > > I seem to recall something about turning on the bridging within the
> > > card????
> >
> > Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
> > network-wireless.html
>
> BTW, what tells me which chip I have in my wlan card? Whether it's a
> Prism chip set for example?
>
> I have an ELSA (discontinued AFAICT) Airlancer MC-11.
>

there is a listing of supported chipsets in the man page of the wi driver... I 
imagine that the hardware release notes would also have some detail, and 
ofailing that use the search on freebsd.org to look for references to that 
chipset...

the wi man page mentions ELSA XI300 and XI800... both Prism II

failing that, find the chip and search for that chip number on the web (google 
is your friend)

there are some chip sites out there too...  good startting points might be 
sysopt.com, tomshardware.com, driver.com even???

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Dr Paul van den Bergen
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