openap vs hostap.... what is the difference?

[thomas chen]

thanks....  another question.... does the orinoco driver support the
prism2.5 card ??? and does the hostap driver support orinoco (lucent/agere)
card ???

thanks

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Answering the subject - HostAP is part of OpenAP.  I asked OpenAP guys to
> put it on their homepage (not just under "credits") because this question
> is asked many times.  But they are probably too busy.
> 
> In fact, the OpenAP mailing list has been dead since June 1.  So here's
> the second difference - HostAP is being actively developed, OpenAP is
> almost dead, unofficial forks notwithstanding.
> 
> > also... is there any incompatiblity if wlan-ng and hostap are
> > both installed ?
> 
> Yes.  cardmgr needs to know which driver to load.  wlan-ng config file in
> /etc/pcmcia will take precedence over the one for HostAP because cardmgr
> includes *.conf files in alphabetic order, and last entries take
> precedence.  To avoid it, put your local config entries to
> /etc/pcmcia/zlocal.conf - it works just fine for me.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin