[Angstrom-distro-users] kinda OT: hardware recommendation to replace my dead Netgear MA701 (CF 802.11b and/or g)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia sobota, 20 października 2007, Oliver Fels napisał:

> All 802.11b CF cards I have come across had no support for WPA included
> because the WPA specs are not defined for 802.11b.

All 802.11b cards based on Prism chipset supports WPA/WPA2 when firmware 
1.7.0 (or newer) is used.

"WPA is designed to secure all versions of 802.11 devices, including 
802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g, multi-band and multi-mode. As a subset of 
802.11i (also known as WPA2), WPA is both forward and backward-compatible 
and is designed to run on existing Wi-Fi devices as a software download. 
As such, WPA devices should work well with the WPA2 devices expected to 
appear in the market in 2004."

Quoted from: http://www.wi-fi.org/white_papers/whitepaper-042903-wpa/

> Some symbol cards use a similar procedure called TKIP which is however
> proprietary.

TKIP is Temporal Key Integrity Protocol which is part of WPA specification 
and is not propertiary afaik.


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