[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless card difficulty

[ABBENHUYS, Ryan]

George,

You are correct, AP mode is for connecting in Infrastructure Mode via an
Access Point.  You need either a commercial access point or a Prism2 based
card (WL200, D-Link650?, etc) which has a custom driver available for Linux
which allows these cards to act as an Access Point.
Currently this driver does not support Hermes chipsets (Orinoco cards,
Enterasys, commonly anything else that is 30mW).
So in answer to your question, no you can't run one of your cards as an
Access Point.

-----Original Message-----
From: simmans at datafast.net.au [mailto:simmans at datafast.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2002 8:15

I have recently installed two enterasys cards one in my lap top and one in
my PC. The cards talk to each other ok under win98 but when placed in AP
mode (with the latest enterasys driver) do not recognise each other. I
deduce from this that AP mode is merely listening for an AP, what software
is required for one of these cards to act as an AP and send out the AP
beacon?
thanks  George


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