Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 13 Nov 2008, at 19:32, Simon wrote:
> ...
> I discussed some time ago with some folks at madwifi and... the  
> answer was basically that they need help.  The drivers are far from  
> being alright, there are obvious issues that still needs to be  
> addressed... the creation/destruction of interface wasn't working  
> very well (this is like 3 months ago).
>
> The conclusion was to move on to ath5k, the newer drivers for  
> atheros wireless cards, I was told madwifi was to be obsolete soon.

I have an Allnet ALL0281 here which I haven't used in a while, but  
which I was VERY pleased with under madwifi.

Under madwifi (not sure if it was madwifi-ng or ye olde one that I  
used) it can be used in master mode with multiple virtual access- 
points. For example, one could have separate WEP & open networks on  
the same wireless card; these were presented as different interfaces  
(wifi0, wifi1, wifi...) so they could be firewalled appropriately.

This card is sitting here ready for when I rebuild the server (in my  
Copious Free Time, obviously).

Can anyone tell me if the ath5k drivers support virtual APs in this  
way? It is VERY useful.

Stroller.