OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt announced today that OpenBSD now supports wavelan bridging: "In the past, many of you have asked if you can do wavelan bridging. We kept saying no, because you cannot run the wavelan in AP mode. There's no way to to put these cards into AP mode. For prism II based cards, however, you now can. Be sure to use a very new firmware on the cards, though."

Find more information on the Prism II chipset here. This link is focused on Linux, but offers more information on wireless LANs.

From: Theo de Raadt
To: misc AT cvs.openbsd.org
Subject: wavelan bridging
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:01:55 -0700

In the past, many of you have asked if you can do wavelan bridging.
We kept saying no, because you cannot run the wavelan in AP mode.
There's no way to to put these cards into AP mode.

For prism II based cards, however, you now can. Be sure to use a
very new firmware on the cards, though.

It should just work.

original work (on a GPL driver) by jkmaline AT cc.hut.fi, then rewritten
to be BSD licensed by skibo AT pacbell.net, then hacked into our tree by
mickey, millert, and markus who wrote the replacement WEP code (since
the BSD licensed code was from the USA).

pretty groovy stuff. It'd be nice if some users tested this as a base
station.