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June Tate-Gans wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Jim Ockers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net"><ockers@ockers.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Adrian,
I think the WPA support depends only on the device driver for the
wireless network hardware. That is the only hardware-specific thing to
worry about. I would think probably most of the WLAN device drivers in
Kubuntu 9.04 support WPA.
Good luck,
Jim
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Actually, there is a chunk of the WPA implementation that must reside
in the radio as well. As a for-instance, I cannot do WPA with the pair
of Orinoco Gold and Silver wireless cards that I have because the
hardware just doesn't support it (one supports WEP30 only and the
other WEP30/128). For reference, those cards are pretty old -- they're
from around the '90s or so -- but the point is still valid.
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The Orinoco is a good example of WLAN radios in which the hardware does
not support WPA. Proxim's white paper on WPA says "To enable WPA on
ORiNOCO Access Points, the radio hardware must meet certain minimum
requirements. Unfortunately, the AP-2000 configured with an ORiNOCO
802.11b PC card cannot <br>
support WPA."
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.proxim.com/learn/library/whitepapers/WPA_White_Paper.pdf">http://www.proxim.com/learn/library/whitepapers/WPA_White_Paper.pdf</a><br>
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However I would think that anything made the last 10 years or so would
probably have the capabilities to support WPA. (This might be
especially true now in the days of software radios, where the radio
hardware has essentially limitless capabilities - limited only by the
baseband, I think).<br>
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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html">http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html</a>
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