Re: WPA2 in D-Link DWL-G520 PCI wireless card?
"H.S." <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:25 -0500, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am using D-Link's DWL-G520 PCI wireless card (rev B.) in a Debian >> machine as an access point using hostapd and madwifi driver. >> >> Currently the encryption is WPA. >> >> I have seen on Dlink's support website that a new driver provides the >> option of WPA2 encryption on the cards in Windows. Does madwifi also >> allow the card to work in WPA2 mode? > > Yes. Nice to have this verified for this card. > >> Even though I can find a recent >> driver for this card for Windows XP, I am not sure if it also includes a >> new firmware for the hardware(card). > > I heard from Atheros engineers that Atheros PCI cards don't have any > firmware, so it's unlikely that any Atheros drivers would include > firmware. Aha! So all I need to do is fix my hostapd configuration and not worry about updating any firmware. Make things somewhat simpler to debug. Thanks and regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july