Prism54 Chipsets Supported?
Patrick Hurrelmann
outi at bytephobia.de
Tue Jul 27 00:04:12 PDT 2004
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:31:06 -0400
Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Please check out:
> <http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/>
> Note that this may well not compile on 5.2.1-RELEASE, just -CURRENT
> (and certainly not -STABLE). Seat belts are not included, but I have
> taken great lengths to make this what I belive to be one of the most
> inherently stable drivers on FreeBSD.
>
> Currently working are: ad-hoc mode, infrastracture mode, and HostAP
> (firmware-based) mode. WEP support works fine, but radiotap and
> promiscuous mode are not implemented. I can't find any PCI cards
> for sure that have Prism GT/Prism Duette chipsets (note that the
> Prism Nitro ones certainly won't work yet, but I don't know how
> much work it is to support them). I'm using NetGear WG511 CardBus
> cards, but haven't tried doing suspend/resume support yet.
>
> Notably absent are HostAP management features (listing associated
> clients, kicking them off, associating with 802.1x) and the
> support for TKIP. Still, it's nice having an 802.11 card that can
> do over 20Mbit/s and not take all your CPU time to do it.
Thats great :)
But first i'll have to get a card based on prism54. I bought a senao prism2,5 mini-pci card.
i'm looking forward to test these drivers, if i'm able to get one of these cards in the near future.
But nevertheless thanks for your work!
Patrick
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