Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA
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This is good that the IEEE is working to get things accomplished at a good pace. But once its ratified I wonder how long it will take for the vendors to implement.
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smp606
join:2002-01-16
PA | Yes! hopefully vendors will implement this within a month or two... |
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BigARR
You Can Call Me Al
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join:2004-01-16
MI, USA
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said by Lumberjack  :
This is good that the IEEE is working to get things accomplished at a good pace. But once its ratified I wonder how long it will take for the vendors to implement.
And...when they do will it require new hardware or just a firmware upgrade? |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | The majority of chips shipped by 2002 should have enough processing power to be able to handle it with just a firmware upgrade. |
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DSLrgm
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join:2002-08-22
Oak Park, MI
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802.11i times
I worked on the standard.
There are not a lot of differences between WPA and 802.11i.
Any hardware that works with WPA will work with 802.11i.
The spec has been stable for almost a year. Changes were cleaning up the text.
A lot of vendors should have code out quickly, as will MS (for XP and Win2000). |
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iffy
join:2004-02-07
Columbus, OH | WPA was never supported under W2K, without third party software. Hopefully this will change with 802.11i, but I wouldn't count on it. |
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wavguy2003
370's Forever
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join:2004-03-18
Saint Charles, IL | Not completely true. Microsoft released WPA Pre-Shared key support for W2K last February. |
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Zomniak
join:2001-01-08
Frisco, TX
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What will change?
I've been using WPA-PSK with AES encryption for over a year with various hardware that all talk to each other:
Linksys WAP54G
Linksys WRT54G
Dell Truemobile 1450
D-Link A/B/G PCMCIA card
D-Link DWL-G120 (USB)
Linksys WPC54GS
Everything above uses broadcom chips except for the D-Links, which use Atheros and Prism chips.
So, what is going to be different if I upgrade to 802.11i drivers?
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Lumberjack
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join:2003-01-18
Newport News, VA | Arg. Too bad Linksys/Broadcomm don't publish Linux drivers. Or at least the API specs. |
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