What's the difference between prism2.5 and prism3 and what version of hostap support prism3

[William Tai]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pavel Roskin" <proski at gnu.org>
To: "William Tai" <williamt at arescom.com>
Cc: <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: What's the difference between prism2.5 and prism3 and what
version of hostap support prism3


> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, William Tai wrote:
>
> > This is a Linux driver for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil's
> > Prism2/2.5 chipset.
> > So I am confused.
> > My hostap driver was download at April.
> > I do not know whether my driver support prism3 or not.
>
> Indeed, it still says so.  Perhaps there haven't been many Prism 3 devices
> around to add it to the documentation.
>
> If you have any problems with Prism 3 device, please report them.  If it's
> a PCI card, you may want to test the CVS version, which has the PCI ID
> for Prism 3 cards.
>

My driver is downloaded around April.
I insert the Prism3 card.
It seems not working well.
Client can not associated with my AP.
BTW, could you tell me when hostap start to support prism3?


Very Thanx

> If you have no problems and everything works, please report it as well
> (with HostAP version and the card name, please), and the documentation
> will be fixed.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>