Re: hostap and intersil prism
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am trying to set up an Intersil Prism PCI card as a wireless
> accesspoint with the hostap driver. I have found several HOWTOs on the
> net, and they all follow about the same procedure (most of them Red Hat
> based though).
than, i'd say you didn't look hard enough or long enough, as there's
tons on non-rh specific hostap howto's
the rest of the driver collection
http://www.Linux-Wireless.org/Wireless/Drivers/
> wlan0 No such device
it means the driver you used didn't find any hardware
> lspci -v
> 0000:00:07.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890
> [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
if this part# ISL3890 is NOT listed in the hostap hw list,
your hw is NOT supported
http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
since it is listed, get the latest version from
http://prism54.org/download/
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consider all wifi packets sniffed and cracked even with wep and some wpa
use ssh and some vpn if you're paranoid
c ya
alvin
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