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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
