will an Orinoco Card work as client w/ hostap-0.0.3

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Wed Jul 23 23:16:18 EDT 2003


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Hazel Nut wrote:

> We are planning to include the kernel configuration or modules needed to
> a customize distro of linux so it will support the feature of AP. I
> think it would be wise that the distro will be making will also support
> other cards like those of lucent or non-prism2 cards. Have any of you
> guys have tried to use Orinoco cards(or any non-prism2 cards) to work as
> client using the hostap-0.0.3 driver?? I would greatly appreciate any
> suggestion or help u can give!!

Yes, it works.  All cards supporting 802.11b protocol can talk to each
other regardless of the vendors and the OS as long as they have functional
firmware and drivers.  Any exception would be a scandal and you would have
heard of it already :-)

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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