Re: Netgear WiFi Equipment & WPA/WPA2

wm_walsh@xxxxxxxxxxx hath wroth:

If your WPN111 does not specifically include WPA
support, you're not going to get it from
Microsoft.

I can't imagine why it wouldn't. I've run a lot of Wi-Fi equipment
under Windows 2000 and never had a problem like this one. And the
option to use WPA is present in the WPN111 software.

One would think that the device drivers and utilities for a piece of
hardware such as this would include everything you need to make it
work on any supported OS.

I have an XP computer around here. It's on a Token Ring network, but I
guess it could be "borrowed" for a moment to test this adapter and see
what happens when trying to enable WPA or WPA2.

XP SP2 has WPA built in. WPA2 can be added with KB893357:
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893357>
XP is not the problem. It's Windoze 2000 that I think is the problem.
There's no official release of WPA or WPA2 from Microsloth for W2K.
You have to get it from either the card vendor or a 3rd party (as
listed in my previous posting).

I dug a bit deeper and found that the WPN111 uses an Atheros AR5523
processor, which has WPA built into the chipset. See:
<http://atheros.com/pt/AR5005UG.htm>
which offers:
"Integrated WPA supplicant supports Windows XP,
Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98 SE"
This still leaves the possibility that Netgear screwed it up, but I
doubt it. Also, the data *** says WPA2-PSK support and does not
distinguish between XP and 2000.
<http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/d102794.asp>
If it allows you to select WPA, and apparently includes a WPA/WPA2
supplicant in the driver, it should work, in which case you can ignore
everything I said.

Meanwhile, it would be interesting to try any other wireless device
that supports WPA/WPA2 on the Windoze 2000 computer in this computer.
The problem seems to follow the computer, which is a clue. If both
the Netgear Cardbus and USB devices fail, it might be something
screwed up in W2K OS installation. Sorry, but I don't have a better
guess.

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