> Well, I wished that would be true for me as well, but I never got it
> to work reliably on a net4801 with Senao 2511 mini PCI cards. Always
> the same problem: lockups when transferring a few megabytes at once.
> When it did work, performance was not very exciting. Kernel 2.6.9,
> hostap 0.2.5 (in hostap mode). Various PRISM firmware versions. Even
> tried WISP-Dist to make sure it wasn't just my Linux installation,
> and tried the same on a net4501 and with different power supplies
> too. Three different SL-2511MP, different client NICs. On the bright
> side, WPA did work with Linux though. ;)

OK. I have always used ordinary pc hardware (P90...P166) and 1.5.6 or 1.7.4
prism2/2.5 firmware (no lockups). Some performance issues with centrino and orinoco
cards. But I think that was caused by the hardware prism2/centrino, prism2/hermes1
not the hostap driver. Same kind of problems can be with commercial APs also.

Hostap mailing list you can found many success stories with hostap and WPA.

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Best Regards, Jar