From: Jacques Caron (Jacques.Caron_at_IPsector.com)
Date: 2002-10-04 15:11:10 UTC
Ach. And I suppose taking the image from the W2K driver to download it to
the card from a Unix system will be cumbersome (i.e. either the user has to
copy it him/herself from its own install of the driver, or we face
copyright violations if we bundle it with the driver)... Or is that image
available in an easy way (e.g. it's just a file in an archive freely
downloadable, and with a file format that is understandable by a unix machine)?
Actually, did anyone try the AP functionality on W2K? What are its features/limitations if any? I guess unless the driver changes completely when in AP mode, features must be quite limited...
Just my EUR 0.02...
Jacques.
At 17:02 04/10/2002, Jim Thompson wrote:
>Terniary only runs from ram.
>
>Jim
>
>On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Jacques Caron wrote:
>
>>And if one uses W2K to download the terniary firmware into the card
>>before using it on a unix machine with hostapd (or something else, I
>>don't know what the interface to the card would act in this case...)?
>>
>>Not sure anybody actually knows the answer...
>>
>>Jacques.
>>
>>At 16:27 04/10/2002, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>
>>>the new Win2K driver has the terniary f/w embedded inside.
>>>
>>>So, no. At least, not without changes to the secondary f/w.
>>>
>>>On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 08:26 AM, Joshua Wright wrote:
>>>
>>>>A week ago or some I saw some posts indicating that Windows (2000/XP?)
>>>>machines could be coaxed into acting as an AP when a specific registry
>>>>key is changed.
>>>>
>>>>Is it forseeable that hostapd might support the Orinoco cards in the
>>>>future?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>-Joshua Wright
>>>>Team Leader, Networks and Systems
>>>>Johnson & Wales University
>>>>Joshua.Wright_at_jwu.edu
>>>>http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/
>>>>
>>>>pgpkey: http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/pgpkey.htm
>>>>fingerprint: FDA5 12FC F391 3740 E0AE BDB6 8FE2 FC0A D44B 4A73
>>
>>
>>-- Jacques Caron, IP Sector Technologies
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