Support for HostAP?

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:09 -0400, Dave Kroetsch wrote:
> Thanks for the reply...
> 
> Yeah, I'm only interested in the 8385 CF flash card version.  I guess if 
> it would need different firmware AND driver support, it's a no-go.  I'll 
> have to come up with something else...

Yeah, can't do it at the moment.  The best bet would probably be a Prism
II-based CF card, which is well supported by hostapd.

Dan

> Thanks,
> 	Dave
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:53 -0400, Dave Kroetsch wrote:
> >> Hi...
> >>
> >> Wondering if there is support to use the Marvell 8385 chipset as an 
> >> access point using the hostap driver, or some other driver?  Has anyone 
> >> had any experience with this?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > There isn't any support in the current libertas driver for AP mode right
> > now, I think you may need different firmware for that as well, which
> > nobody seems to have...  The original Marvell reference drivers didn't
> > contain AP-mode support either, so we didn't have anything to go on.
> > 
> > Are you only interested in the 8385?
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
>