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HostAP is a kernel module that works with wireless network cards based on the Intersil Prism chipset.

Version 1 cards are not supported, but the vast bulk of cards are prism 2, 2.5 or 3.  This kernel module is for [Linux], and replaces orinoco_cs and hermes.  It allows your linux box to act as an access point, and offloads a lot of the framing work to the NIC's firmware, rather than doing it all in software.

Howto
http://www.goonda.org/wireless/prism2/

Info on Driver
http://hostap.epitest.fi/

[Debian]'s hostap-utils package
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/hostap-utils.html

Short list of Prism cards
http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Prism2Card

Massively long list of wireless cards and their Linux support
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html4.html

This is the script [Criggie] uses to start HostAP

------------start---------- %%%
killall -9 hostapd  %%%
ifconfig wlan0 down  %%%
ifconfig wlan0ap down  %%%
rmmod hostap_cs  %%%
rmmod hostap  %%%
rmmod hostap_crypt_wep  %%%
rmmod hostap_crypt  %%%

modprobe hostap_cs  %%%
modprobe hostap_crypt_wep  %%%
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.99.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.99.255  %%%
iwconfig wlan0 nick nicknameforaccesspoint key s:yourwepkeyhere  %%%
hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf &  %%%

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[IsomerMadeMeDoThis]

One page links to HostAP:

PrismWirelessChipset

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