Quoting Nate Carlson (natecars at real-time.com):
> If you want a card you can use in Host AP mode, go buy a Prism2-based
> card. It requires a bit of playing to get working, but you can do all
> sorts of cool tweaks with the cards that you can't do with Cisco/Orinoco.

The Cisco gear can go Host AP mode too, it's called AdHoc mode. Just to champion
Cisco gear. :-0
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