hostap - more then one card?

[Antonio Vilei]

Hello,

> Is it possible to use hostap with more then one card?

It is possible to run more than one card controlled by hostap driver.
Anyway, besides channel spacing, if you insert too many cards, you will also
face CPU load problems. Remember that the Prism2 cards use PIO (programmed
I/O), so the CPU is involved in any data transfer from the card to the host
memory. Please dig into the mailing list archives and you will find more
details on this topic.

Regards,
Antonio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Abbenhuys" <sneeze at igreen.net>
To: "Ryan Verner" <xfesty at computeraddictions.com.au>; <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: hostap - more then one card?


> You wouldn't want to run more than 3 cards in the same physical location
due
> to channel spacing.
>
> There are only 3 channels in 802.11b that don't overlap.
>
> I think they're 1, 6 and 11 ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Verner" <xfesty at computeraddictions.com.au>
> To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:36 PM
> Subject: hostap - more then one card?
>
>
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Is it possible to use hostap with more then one card?
> >
> > I'm looking at some solutions where I'll have multiple antannae (point
to
> > point links), and for cost effectiveness and other reasons, it'll be
nice
> to
> > have 4-5 cards in the one machine rather then 4-5 machines.
> >
> > Even two cards in one machine would be nice.
> >
> > Anybody done this?  I've never tried it.
> >
> > R
> >
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