Prism54 Chipsets Supported?

[Sparrevohn, Thomas]

It really does not depend on the reality of how secure a shared mode is ;-) but of what the local immutable policy is ;-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Niki Denev
Sent: 30 April 2004 12:18
To: Sparrevohn, Thomas
Cc: Patrick Hurrelmann; 'Arne Schwabe'; freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org; freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org; freebsd-current at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Prism54 Chipsets Supported?


Sparrevohn, Thomas writes:

> It reminds me - It seems that the 80211 part of the driver does not 
> support "authmode shared" mode? Are there any plans for in support of 
> that? Or are that a good reason for the lack of it - e.g. legal etc?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Arne Schwabe
> Sent: 30 April 2004 11:10
> To: Patrick Hurrelmann
> Cc: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org; freebsd-current at freebsd.org; 
> freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Prism54 Chipsets Supported?
> 
> 
> Patrick Hurrelmann <outi at bytephobia.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently using a Dell TrueMobile 1300 (Broadcom) on my Dell
>> Latitude D600 Notebook. Thanks to Bill Pauls awesome work it is 
>> performs very well for daily und "normal" wireless lan usage.
>>
>> But i want to run some tools, that are only available fo wi-cards. Is
>> Prism54-Chipset already supported? I read something that a driver for 
>> linux exists on www.prism54.org. will it make it to freebsd or is it 
>> highly unlikely?
>>
>> Some on the lists posted, that he has replaced his card with an
>> ath-based one. Maybe ath is an alternative to wi, but i'd relly prefer 
>> wi (802.11g or a is a must have).
> 
> I think that the prism54 is not support. But Atheros Chips have a/b/g 
> (They were the first a chipsets)
> 
> Arne
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As far as i remember, a while ago someone pointed out that in fact authmode 
shared is less secure than open mode. So this shouldn't be much of a problem 
:)

--Niki Denev