Hostap on 802.11a Cards

[Sam Leffler]

> Ooops indeed, my mistake, Broadcom is the only one with (draft) 802.11g,
> not a. Sorry about the confusion.

The Atheros 5212 parts do a/b/g.

>
> At 18:16 10/01/2003, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > > And as far as I know, the only available 802.11a cards are based on
the
> > > Broadcom chipset, the 802.11b version of which does not even have any
> > > drivers. And even if there were, there's no guarantee that the
firmware of
> > > the card would allow anything like hostap to happen.
> > >
> >
> >I believe the majority of the 802.11a products currently on the market
have
> >Atheros chips in them.  Open source driver support for Atheros h/w is
going
> >on but not yet available.
> >
> >     Sam
>
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