Firmware Upgrade MA311

[Sam Leffler]

Bob Bishop wrote:
> 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

Jouni Malinen's hostap driver for linux has supported WPA on these cards 
for a long time.

Sam