From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Orinoco, mac80211 and wpa2
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:42:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175697737.2656.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4613A4A9.1060902@l4x.org>
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:14 +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a 802.11b Orinoco based integrated WLAN card in my
> Sony Laptop (SRX51P). I'm using it with the in kernel 'orinoco-cs'
> driver. The driver does not support connecting to wpa2
> enabled networks. If I understand it correctly, the mac80211
> can emulate wpa2 in software? Would porting the orinoco
> driver to the new framework make it to possible to use wpa2
> with it? Or is wpa2 hardware dependent?
WPA requires a combination of updated firmware and hardware support. If
you card doesn't have the right hardware (though most are likely capable
of WPA-TKIP at least), it won't be able to do WPA. If you do not have
firmware that is capable of WPA, you will not be able to do WPA.
Only a few manufacturers released updated firmware to support WPA-TKIP
and even fewer to support WPA-CCMP on cards that did not originally
support it.
In your case, some cards supported by the orinoco drivers _do_ have WPA
capability with a firmware upgrade and by using the 'hostap' drivers.
I'd try blacklisting the orinoco and see if the 'hostap' driver supports
your card.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-04 13:14 Orinoco, mac80211 and wpa2 Jan Dittmer
2007-04-04 14:42 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2007-04-04 15:22 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-04-04 15:38 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-04-04 16:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-04-04 21:34 ` Miles Lane
2007-04-06 10:03 ` Erik Mouw
2007-04-06 19:31 ` Pavel Roskin
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