The drivers do contain the AP ter. firmware and they load when the registry value is set. As far as I know the ter. firmware is the only way to make a lucent card and ap, as they do no support a hostap like functionality that the prism2 cards do. I have tested this somewhat and netstumbler sees the device as an Access Point in BSS mode.

We were able to pass packets between to clients associated to a Windows Laptop. However we had some trouble getting ICS working with hostap mode turned on, not sure if it was us or if the windows box was wonky. But yes its true.

Ken

Jacques Caron wrote:
From what I remember reading, apparently they do have this tertiary firmware embedded, and will load it into the card when configured to do so...

More info can be found here:

http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/LucentBssMode?action=highlight&value=ApMode

Let us know the results, I'm just too lazy (and not very interested) to try myself...

Jacques.

At 16:37 25/10/2002, Kevin Arima wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jacques Caron wrote:

> You can supposedly put an Orinoco/Agere/Lucent card in hostap mode by
> setting a registry value, using the latest drivers for W2K. Haven't tried
> it, and haven't seen anywhere what the final result is (i.e. what you can
> control and how), though.
>

Do you have any documentations or website that has this info? IIRC, the
AP does a soft-load of the AP firmware when it's inserted into a RG or an
AP unit. I doubt that the drivers themselves (even when using the
tertiary firmware load feature) contain the AP-specific firmware.

Kevin "Starfox" Arima

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