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

[Vic Berdin]

Hi,

In addition to the major diferences (and what makes
HostAP more ideal, IMO), OpenAP requires that you 
replace the sram image of working APs. 
HostAP simply requires any PC with wireless card 
support and GNU/Linux.

Regards, Vic

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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:49:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>
Subject: Re: openap vs hostap.... what is the
difference?
To: Thomas Chen <tchen at on-go.com>
Cc: hostap at shmoo.com
Message-ID:

<Pine.LNX.4.56.0307071841330.14475 at marabou.research.att.com>
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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



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