Re: WPA2 in D-Link DWL-G520 PCI wireless card?

"H.S." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user
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.



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