atheros wifi driver (freebsd 6.0)

Michal Mertl mime at traveller.cz
Mon Nov 21 15:18:57 GMT 2005


LeifEriccson wrote:
> Marcin Jessica wrote:
> 
> >What do you mean by virtual WLANs ?
> >
> >Marcin
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> multi ssid support. compared to lancom 54 ag AP´s, which are able to
> handle several different named wlan networks, out of one device.
> on a normal ethernet device you are able to set up several vlans eth0.0
> eth0.1 ... i want to know if this is possible with a atheros based wlan
> device.

No, this isn't possible with FreeBSD. Sam Leffler, one of the authors of
802.11 code in FreeBSD, has plans to do that though. It may be part of
7.0 and probably will be available as a patch for 6.X. You can read the
slides from his presentation about the future of 802.11 on
http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf .

Michal



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