From: Tony Toole (tony_at_valemount.com)
Date: 2001-12-18 00:00:11 UTC
The Lucents differ from regular Prism-II cards in that it uses the Hermes
MAC controller chip compared to the hfa384x of the prism-II. The Lucents
also use a custom firmware, which probably doesn't contain HostAP support.
Tony Toole
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Flintham" <nick_at_flinny.demon.co.uk>
To: "Michael Codanti" <michael_at_civis.com>
Cc: <hostap_at_lists.ssh.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: AP/station mode
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Michael Codanti wrote:
>
> > Isn't the Dell card a rebranded Lucent card? (It should say on the
bottom)
> >
> > If so, it won't work with the HostAP mode driver at this time as it
> > currently only supports PrismII based cards like the D-Link DWL-650,
> > LinkSys, Zcomax, etc.
>
>
> Yes Its manufactured by Lucent but from all the information I can find it
> is based on the Intersil Prism 2 chipset. The orinoco driver picks it up
> as an Intersil Prism 2 11Mbps Wireless Adapter.
>
> Nick.
>
>