Re: don't bring your APs to HEL
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:44:30PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:29 +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > Do I gather from this thread that all 802.11b cards will simply not work as
> > they don't 'do' WPA, or is it more complicated than that?
>
> *b cards are sure not to work, for *g cards there's a good probability
> that there is at least some trouble and at least some time consumption
> to get it going. For me it's the latter.
You can use WPA with 802.11b cards with the hostap driver. My gf is
sucessfully using such configuration with her (newer) DWL-650.
It took a firmware upgrade to get hostap working with her card.
My own older DWL-650 card could not be upgraded to this version.
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