WDS with older firmware AP's?

[Jason Straight]

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On Monday February 16 2004 17:12, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Jason Straight wrote:
> > I'm just starting to tinker with WDS, and have a question. I've found
> > that it's recommended to have newer firmware to use the 4 address mode on
> > the hostap client, is it necessary to have newer firmware on the AP you
> > are joining up with?
>
> As I understand, the WDS support is only needed on the access points.
> Clients (you mean stations, right?) don't use 4-address packets, so they
> don't need new firmware for that purpose.  Intersil station firmware 1.5.0
> or newer is needed for an access point running HostAP to support WDS.  If
> the other access point doesn't run HostAP it still needs to support WDS.
> Whether it needs firmware upgrade is irrelevant to HostAP - you should see
> the manual and possibly the site of the vendor.

Right, what I was referring to was:
My station (linux running hostap with newest prism firmware), trying to act as 
a repeater to an access point which has old prism firmware on it (linksys 
WAP-11), and the card won't fit in my pcmcia port on my laptop so I cant 
flash it.

Thanks.

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