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Intersil's station firmware for Prism2 chipset supports a so called
HostApMode [1] in which the firmware takes care of time critical tasks
like beacon sending and frame acknowledging, but leaves other
management tasks to host computer driver.
This driver implements basic functionality needed to initialize and
configure Prism2-based cards, to send and receive frames, and to
gather statistics.
In addition, it includes an implementation of the following IEEE
802.11 functions:
* authentication (and deauthentication),
* association (reassociation, and disassociation),
* data transmission between two wireless stations,
* power saving (PS) mode signaling
* and frame buffering for PS stations.
The driver has also various features for development debugging and
for researching IEEE 802.11 environments like access to hardware
configuration records, I/O registers, and frames with 802.11 headers.
Source: http://hostap.epitest.fi/ [2]
See also HostAP [3]
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?HostApMode
[2] http://hostap.epitest.fi/
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?HostAP
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