Firmware Upgrade MA311

Bob Bishop rb at gid.co.uk
Sat Dec 8 14:53:35 PST 2007


Hi,

On 8 Dec 2007, at 16:51, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Bob Bishop wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8 Dec 2007, at 07:01, Tony & Heather Tregale wrote:
>>> Can this wireless card decode WPA - PSK, please?  If so, how?
>>
>> I don't believe the Prism 2.5 chipset can do WPA. See `man wi'
>
> I believe the fw is capable of supporting WPA starting with 1.7 or  
> possibly an earlier rev.

Well according to this post: http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php? 
t=7120
the card only supports WEP, but that could be Netgear's drivers I  
suppose.

>  The problem is entirely in in the wi driver.
>
> Note that "decode WPA - PSK" is actually a misnomer as most all the  
> work ends up happening in the host--all the fw needs to do is "get  
> out of the way".
>
>    Sam

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