hostap with prism2 usb wlan stick
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Wed Nov 7 23:28:04 EST 2007
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:02 +0100, Daniel Endres wrote:
> hello guys,
>
> i'm just trying to turn my usb wlan stick equipped notebook (linksys
> prism2 chipset) into a wlan access point. I'm using debian. i've got
> the bad feeling, usb sticks aren't (fully) supported yet.
> Am I right, or is there any possibility to get the access point up
> and running ?
I'm afraid your best bet is to get linux-wlan-ng and use the device in
the ad-hoc mode. There is no publicly available tertiary firmware for
Prism USB, and the HostAP mode is not supported by any driver on those
devices.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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